The emphasis is on redemption and reconciliation. It all makes for pleasant enough storytelling but the film doesn’t dig nearly as deep as you first expect it might.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 16, 2025

Uncle Frank is sure to be one of Amazon’s future awards season players.

| Sep 28, 2022

It's a film with too many instances where characters do completely out-of-character actions simply to advance the plot.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 14, 2022

Solid, compassionate, accessible film that pleases.

| May 20, 2022

Even in its small way, its a film that feels like progress. We dont often see such a straight-forward close lens on this kind of story; while it sometimes lacks subtly, it was a story many of us want to hear, and more of us need to.

| Feb 21, 2022

Uncle Frank holds a good balance of being both a character piece and a well-paced kitchen sink drama, with all the hall-marks of a master screenwright at its helm.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 31, 2021

That it's so touching is a testament to Bettany's performance.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 10, 2021

Given its subject matter and its myriad supporting characters - and some of the wonderful actors who inhabit them - Uncle Frank feels like it could have been a more-robust affair.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 14, 2021

Uncle Frank, written and directed by Alan Ball, is clearly a drama, but it hides the true depths of its drama for much of the film.

| Feb 4, 2021

Alan Ball's Uncle Frank is rife with potential, but in rushing the catharsis it fails to engage the viewer, and Frank remains as unknowable to us as he was in the beginning.

| Original Score: 5.5/10 | Jan 29, 2021

Uncle Frank looks good, has a nice enough script from Alan Ball, and a collective cast that makes it tolerable.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 29, 2021

Uncle Frank wears its heart on its sleeve, and that works for a while. Yet, as the movie goes on, it becomes so sweet and saccharine, you just wind up with a toothache.

| Original Score: C | Jan 27, 2021

Bettany doesn't just try to understand Frank; you can read the character all across his face. It's first class nuance that hits harder in the end.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 15, 2020

The end result is a film that is softly moving, immensely charming and bittersweetly emotive. Such a delight.

| Dec 12, 2020

The surprise highlight of the film is Frank's lover Wally (Peter Macdissi) who wants more family so much that he's willing to risk much more than even Frank. Get Out & Proud!

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 11, 2020

The relationship between Frank and Wally exists so beautifully within this film, I wish I could just watch a movie about them together without the contrivances of Frank's family drama.

| Dec 10, 2020

While a bit too melodramatic at times, it never does so incorrectly, just the style of filmmaking it's going for. Still, Uncle Frank hits you right in the feels and never lets up.

| Dec 7, 2020

Following many detours, there's little gas left by the time we arrive at the all-too-convenient conclusion.

| Dec 5, 2020

The writer/director's peculiar misunderstanding of his audience, and penchant for clichéd characters makes a hash of what would be a strong, lead performance from Bettany, a wonderful actor, long regulated to the sidelines.

| Original Score: 83/100 | Dec 5, 2020

At times too broad and at others too maudlin-which is to say, quintessentially Alan Ball-Uncle Frank is a welcome twist on the coming out film

| Dec 4, 2020