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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 19 Apr 2012

While it's not a disaster like Kasdan's last film, Dreamcatcher'' (2003), Darling Companion doesn't amount to much more than a fairly painless…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for DVDTalk.com (826) on 19 Apr 2012

That's a fine cast, and the film is handsomely photographed in Colorado and Utah. It's all so nice. Too nice. Deathly nice…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 18 Apr 2012

Darling Companion is a Pretty White People with Problems movie, but like the dog at its center, it cozies its way into your lap and stares…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 18 Apr 2012

A Lawrence-Kasdan directed dramody about how a lost dog helps a long-married couple find their way back to each other…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 18 Apr 2012

As bland and soft as a nice bowl of oatmeal…

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By Doris Toumarkine (464) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 18 Apr 2012

With its strong cast, gorgeous Utah mountain locations, brilliant fall colors and laudable story in praise of love, animals, family loyalty,…

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By A.o. Scott (2,100) for New York Times (5,786) on 18 Apr 2012

If you found Benji the Hunted unbearably intense or Marley & Me a bit too hard-edged, then Darling Companion may be the dog movie for you…

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By Mary Pols (197) for Time (1,811) on 18 Apr 2012

It has a gentle if unenlightening message, namely that we should all take time off to reconnect - the soundtrack tends to the Bonnie Raitt…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Movieline (883) on 18 Apr 2012

There's too much people and not enough dog in Lawrence Kasdan's Darling Companion, and even if you prefer people to dogs, that's a serious problem…

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By Betsy Sharkey (695) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 18 Apr 2012

Like Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, Darling Companion has lost its way…

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By Ella Taylor (978) for NPR (1,713) on 18 Apr 2012

The movie uses the mutt's disappearance as a frame on which to hang a well-worn package of fatally mild domestic disorder, then resolve it…

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By Joe Neumaier (1,294) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 18 Apr 2012

The folksy shenanigans are well-intentioned but frankly interminable, with Kline's wry efficiency the best relief from all the yowling and whining…

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By Robert Levin (797) for amNewYork (559) on 18 Apr 2012

The predictably fine acting can't save the movie from the insipid writing, which is centered on the less-than-illuminating insight that some…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 17 Apr 2012

The doggie in Darling Companion is a big, warm bundle of puppy love; his owners are lost forever in a big chill…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for Observer (1,042) on 16 Apr 2012

The movie is not about the dog…

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By Melissa Anderson (387) for Village Voice (8,525) on 16 Apr 2012

The handsome pooch is also the only appealing aspect of the latest tale of privileged boomer pulse-taking from Lawrence Kasdan…

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By Keith Uhlich (870) for Time Out (7,510) on 16 Apr 2012

The story's treacly all-souls-in-alignment outcome is never in doubt, but as Kasdan dogs go, this is light-years better than Dreamcatcher…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine/Vulture (3,519) on 14 Apr 2012

If you can stay awake, you'll see a performance by Keaton that is radiant in its simplicity, all ditheriness shaken off…

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By Lael Loewenstein (88) for Variety (12,700) on 14 Apr 2012

It meanders about as much as its eponymous pooch…

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By Harvey S. Karten (2,210) for Compuserve (1,948) on 13 Apr 2012

Diane Keaton's frequent bouts of hysteria are numbing in this otherwise amiable shaggy dog story…

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