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By John Anderson (1,358) for Newsday (2,345) on 17 Sep 2014

What starts as an elaborate sitcom becomes an emotionally substantial tragicomedy…

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By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 17 Sep 2014

It’s like a Parisian variation on Nicole Holofcener’s “Please Give,” or the premise of another PBS Masterpiece Theater series with Smith…

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By Matthew Lickona (530) for San Diego Reader (713) on 17 Sep 2014

The story's power lies in the clutter and dimness of the apartment and the acrid-but-civilized conversations that arise when the dust is disturbed…

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By Claude Peck (12) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 17 Sep 2014

If sad, fearful adult lives wrecked by depression, divorce, disappointment, adultery, addiction and family dysfunction are your thing, My Old…

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By Gail Pennington (25) for St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1,715) on 17 Sep 2014

Kline has fun with the role, but the plot's dark turn and heavy-handed message make My Old Lady more bitter than sweet…

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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 17 Sep 2014

Horovitz may have made a questionable decision in adapting this particular play for the screen, but his casting was flawless…

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By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 17 Sep 2014

It’s a pity party to which you’d like to RSVP an unequivocal “no.”…

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By Sarah Boslaugh (544) for Playback:stl (411) on 16 Sep 2014

If My Old Lady does not always succeed dramatically, it's still a superb vehicle for its actors…

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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 16 Sep 2014

Despite a few neat bouts of speechifying…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for honeycuttshollywood.com (375) on 14 Sep 2014

An unabashedly old-fashioned crowd-pleaser that adroitly mixes comedy, gravitas, star turns and musical serendipity…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 14 Sep 2014

In Horovitz's world, redemption and forgiveness come about too quickly, but so much of his dialogue really sings in the hands of Smith and Kline…

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By Mallory Andrews (58) for Movie Mezzanine (782) on 12 Sep 2014

This is Mathias' story through and through, and it's hard not to wonder why we should even care in the first place…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 11 Sep 2014

The material veers a bit too predictably from near farce to serioso dramatics but the trajectory here makes emotional sense…

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By Walter Addiego (380) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Sep 2014

My Old Lady is affecting, even if many of the revelations and high-voltage speeches occur at predictable moments…

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By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 10 Sep 2014

My Old Lady is affecting, even if many of the revelations and high-voltage speeches occur at predictable moments…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 10 Sep 2014

This is a promising premise and the cast is certainly game…

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By Matt Prigge (853) for Metro (930) on 10 Sep 2014

When it's just [the three leads] chatting away, it doesn't matter what beneath-them silliness they're forced to go through…

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By Glenn Kenny (1,728) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 09 Sep 2014

My Old Lady is pretty compelling viewing, mostly thanks to Kline, who gives a career-high performance here…

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By Jen Chaney (126) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 09 Sep 2014

My Old Lady isn’t the tart slice of dessert that its initial scenes suggest it might be…

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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 09 Sep 2014

The setup might seem familiar and charming, but this film's payoffs come from unexpected places and require an audience's willingness to travel…

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