I thought this is the best performance [Paul Bettany's] given since Gangster No. 1... secondly it's really funny.

| Dec 2, 2020

Uncle Frank revolves around Uncle Frank, and Bettany's career-great performance as a man who knows where the gaps are in his life, and how much his whole relationship with his family is about holding his breath.

| Dec 1, 2020

Even Paul Bettany firing on all available cylinders can't quite save this mixed-bag melodrama from its flimsiness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 29, 2020

Uncle Frank is fated to become the green bean casserole of this holiday's film streaming options: designed to appeal to everyone, but destined to remain uneaten.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 27, 2020

An evocative slice of retro Americana and a highly entertaining road movie.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 26, 2020

Uncle Frank doesn't have the witty indirectness of American Beauty or Ball's 온라인카지노추천 classic Six Feet Under, but it has a strong and very convincing performance from Bettany.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 26, 2020

In description, "Uncle Frank" sounds like a tonal nightmare, but Paul Bettany's quiet, calm performance as Frank glues everything together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 26, 2020

It's a poignant dysfunctional family drama laced with warmth, sadness, humor and hope.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 26, 2020

Alan Ball's "Uncle Frank" is a wonderfully warm film about coming out and growing up.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 26, 2020

"Uncle Frank" is hopeful enough to suggest a healing way out of the bind and well-crafted enough to get a viewer to believe it. Maybe that's enough to get us through the holidays.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 26, 2020

"Uncle Frank," a finely acted, often deeply emotional period piece that, despite its share of strong moments, stacks the deck too much for its own dramatic good.

| Nov 26, 2020

It's touching... But for the overwhelming most part, I liked it better when it was about this young girl with her uncle in New York.

| Nov 26, 2020

The first half is definitely more interesting and rang truer to me than the second [half].

| Nov 26, 2020

Easy doesn't always mean lazy. But Uncle Frank's bewilderingly pat conclusion all but obliterates the good that comes before, reducing the complexity of Frank's experience to those two words, "No problem."

| Original Score: C | Nov 26, 2020

Those moments that land, whether funny or moving, occur when Ball isn't getting in his own way and instead trusts in the characters he's written and the actors who are performing them.

| Nov 25, 2020

Uncle Frank is a funny and entertaining road movie with likeable performances - just brace for a closing dollop of sentimentality.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 25, 2020

Uncle Frank's intentions are to be admired, and its acting is outstanding - but if it's so frustratingly unwilling to truly invest in its characters, why should we?

| Nov 25, 2020

Combines several overworked genres - the coming-of-age picture, the road-trip odyssey, the angst-filled family-reunion movie - and mostly steers clear of the obvious pitfalls.

| Nov 25, 2020

Ultimately, writer-director Alan Ball's predictable but engaging drama is about acceptance and courage.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 25, 2020

The farther we get from the central relationship, the more clichéd Uncle Frank becomes, and these clichés are outdated and trite.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 25, 2020