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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for AV Club (2,778) on 07 Aug 2012

Taylor and Frankel go too broad when they try for comic relief - and the on-the-nose soundtrack is borderline criminal - but Hope Springs handles…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Gawker (7) on 07 Aug 2012

That a Hollywood summer comedy starring two 60-year-olds is the year's most daring sex film is astounding. And also kind of sad…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Television Without Pity (337) on 07 Aug 2012

It's a film of modest ambitions, but it mostly achieves them and does so in an entertaining, emotionally honest fashion to boot…

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By Ian Buckwalter (369) for NPR (1,713) on 07 Aug 2012

Contrasting the cookie-cutter rom-com ad campaign, Hope Springs comes as a pleasant surprise: Vanessa Taylor's screenplay is largely a subdued…

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By Mike Scott (1,178) for Times-Picayune (642) on 07 Aug 2012

Billed as a dramatic comedy, and it lives up to that billing, even if it tends more toward chuckles than guffaws…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for New York Times (5,786) on 07 Aug 2012

The movie is an awkward cross between a domestic comedy and a marital tragedy that's laced with laughs, soggy with tears and burdened by a…

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By Michael Phillips (2,622) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 07 Aug 2012

As Kay and Arnold struggle to reconnect, Hope Springs stays close to the task at hand…

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By Mary F. Pols (536) for TIME Magazine (1,130) on 07 Aug 2012

Hope Springs isn't an exciting movie, not remotely -- its narrative arc revolves around getting a couple on the far side of middle age to resume…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 07 Aug 2012

Rather than plunge into the murky marital waters of ambivalence and power struggle, the film bobs on the surface…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 07 Aug 2012

Hope Springs could have been unbearably schmaltzy or crude…

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By Marc Mohan (821) for Oregonian (1,550) on 07 Aug 2012

It takes an almost bracingly explicit attitude toward issues of sexual intimacy, to the degree that just seeing this film might count as therapy…

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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 07 Aug 2012

It turns out that crude behavior and broad stereotypes can be made warmly human and believable when actors of the caliber of Meryl Streep and…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 07 Aug 2012

It's about as uncomfortable as sitting through an interminable counseling session - involving two people you hardly know and don't much care about…

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By Mark Ellis (362) for Schmoes Know (710) on 07 Aug 2012

It was like watching a basketball game trying to focus on the point guard match-ups and the centers....but the story just wasn't something…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 07 Aug 2012

Hope Springs succeeds in making us think about what a good marriage is, and that's not nothing. But it makes us do too much of the work…

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By Mary Pols (197) for Time (1,811) on 07 Aug 2012

I don't want to scare anyone away, but Hope Springs, better than I expected, is a movie for grown ups that seems just the tiniest bit French…

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By Dustin Putman (2,479) for TheFilmFile.com (2,314) on 07 Aug 2012

There aren't nearly enough movies made these days about and catering to the AARP-aged population, and even fewer still with the intelligence…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 07 Aug 2012

It keeps undercutting itself by going for cheap laughs…

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By David Medsker (361) for Bullz-Eye.com (1,091) on 06 Aug 2012

How much you enjoy Hope Springs will depend largely on how much you enjoy watching old people have sex…

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By Jeff Meyers (379) for Metro Times (Detroit, MI) (691) on 06 Aug 2012

Instead of creating complex, three-dimensional human beings, Hope Springs infantilizes the emotions and life experiences of older Americans…

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