An intelligent drama.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

The Upside of Anger is bright, funny, and a very touching film that features some quality performances.

| Nov 18, 2019

The Upside of Anger is truly something special.

| Feb 6, 2018

A late twist renders all this sturm und drang a tad redundant, but until then anger keeps it alive.

| Aug 24, 2017

Upside is better-than-average as a mid-budget suburban film dramedy but positively gangbusters if you imagine it as a two-hour television pilot.

| Original Score: B | Aug 6, 2014

The screwiness feels patterned and arbitrary. There's little Upside here.

| May 15, 2012

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

No actress has neck muscles like Joan Allen - able to gracefully reach upward or, here, stiffly twist into a double helix of tension and anxiety. It's not simply witty repartee and good chemistry. It's about comfortable situations that can't really last.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 22, 2010

Binder's writing is matched by the top-notch talents on display here.

| Apr 29, 2009

Writer/director/actor Mike Binder (writer on HBO's "The Mind Of The Married Man") is to blame for this melodramatic game of Three Card Monte.

| Original Score: C- | Apr 16, 2009

The Upside of Anger is a sharply written, insightful and enjoyable film with many layers.

| Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 14, 2007

Not half bad, though only half good.

| May 12, 2007

Engaging, brilliantly directed, frequently funny and ultimately moving drama with a terrific script and superb performances from Allen and Costner.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 4, 2007

Very watchable.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2007

A grandstanding performance from Joan Allen is the main attraction in this suburban dramacom.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2007

The final twist is misjudged, and it doesn't cohere at any level; but some funny moments.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2007

Hilarious, moving and intoxicating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 4, 2007

Self-pitying and saccharine, this big whining ball of dross drags itself across the screen for two interminable hours, climaxing in a twist ending that comes with neon road signs attached.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 4, 2007

Entertaining but flawed look behind suburbia's twitching curtains.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 4, 2007