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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 William D (321) on 15 Apr 2012

Love is Love, Even if it's for a Dog.....that line alone is enough to make me want to see it…

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By Randall S (111) on 14 Apr 2012

Darling Companion is a darling little film…

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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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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 12 Apr 2012

Lawrence Kasdan's comedy strikes a note of rib-nudging blah coyness that feels very 1987…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 12 Apr 2012

A lost-dog drama so insufferable it makes one wish its human characters would also run off and never return…

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By Malcolm S (22) on 04 Mar 2012

Begins below the quality of your average made for TV movie with inept dialog from Kasdan and poor delivery even from some superb actors…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for Hollywood Reporter (2,966) on 10 Feb 2012

While superbly acted, the dramedy plays out like a tepid Big Chill at best…

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