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By E. Oliver Whitney (111) for ScreenCrush (954) on 06 May 2016

It may not be as poignant a story as its characters give way to, nor reach the cathartic resolutions it builds towards, but The Family Fang…

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By Robert Horton (590) for HeraldNet (Everett, WA) (288) on 05 May 2016

The movie's style is too realistic to nail the blend of comedy and tragedy, but Christopher Walken has some fine moments as the family patriarch…

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By Christine N. Ziemba (72) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 05 May 2016

Bateman's strength is his ability to work so well with actors-as someone in the business for a long time (he started at age 12 on Little House…

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By Nathaniel Rogers (250) for Film Experience (395) on 05 May 2016

It doesn't always nail its more ambitious attempts to be about the emotional cost of art for artists but it's highly watchable and interesting…

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By Adam Graham (720) for Detroit News (2,682) on 05 May 2016

Bateman knows his fractured family well, but Fang doesn't give him enough to chew on…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 05 May 2016

However you can find it, it is worth checking out, another high water mark for both Bateman and Kidman…

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By Steve Pond (235) for TheWrap (3,203) on 05 May 2016

The Family Fang is kind of messy but also fun and touching; it's a definite step forward for Bateman as a director…

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By Bill Goodykoontz (2,123) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 04 May 2016

With The Family Fang, [Bateman] shows confidence with drama and, perhaps more impressively, with weirdness, never letting things get odd just…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 04 May 2016

Mr…

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By Nico Lang (37) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 04 May 2016

What’s most unfortunate is that The Family Fang leaves so many ideas on the table that would have made for a far more fascinating film, one…

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By Mark Olsen (451) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 04 May 2016

For a project that is a showcase for his talents as both actor and director, Bateman never gets too showy on either front, keeping the emotions…

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By Steve Davis (486) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 04 May 2016

For most of the film, Bateman, the director, manages to bring out the two principals’ anguish without resorting to sentimentality, until…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 04 May 2016

Based on the best-selling 2011 novel, Fang is directed by Bateman with a sensitivity that the story’s sour whimsy doesn’t quite deserve…

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By Michael Heaton (182) for Cleveland Plain Dealer (828) on 04 May 2016

The film is steadfastly unquirky. The characters come across as real, flawed human beings in search of real meaning in their lives…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 04 May 2016

Even when The Family Fang stretches credulity, we stay with it. Bateman knows how to tell a story…

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By Dann Gire (642) for Chicago Daily Herald (649) on 04 May 2016

A key revelation in the mystery feels inserted for effect (no spoilers here) and the drama plays out at a pace that merely flirts with lethargy…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 04 May 2016

There are hints of awkward comedy in the film's surface structure, but underneath lies a swamp of jumbled chronology and storytelling dissonance…

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By Stephanie Merry (410) for Washington Post (9,851) on 04 May 2016

Bateman does an effective job directing the movie, which is based on a novel by Kevin Wilson (with a script by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire),…

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By John Hartl (735) for Seattle Times (3,524) on 04 May 2016

With its opening line, “Imagine you’re dead,” The Family Fang instantly invites its soon-to-be-captive audience on an absorbing, provocative,…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 04 May 2016

There's nothing predictable about any of the angles, and Mr. Abaire's script reveals a surprise around every corner…

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