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By Tom Russo (407) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 31 Aug 2016

Krasinski infuses The Hollars with familiar wry humor, but he also delivers a film that’s unexpectedly rich with sweetly moving moments…

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By Ann Hornaday (1,919) for Washington Post (9,851) on 31 Aug 2016

The Hollars drives inexorably to a conclusion that feels as manipulatively mawkish as it is impossibly tidy, typical of a genre that too often…

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By Randy Cordova (352) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 31 Aug 2016

Krasinski is likable and Martindale can make the lamest dialogue sound believable…

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By Devan Coggan (80) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 30 Aug 2016

Is The Hollars an original, breathtaking dramedy that says anything new about middle-class suburbia and family? No…

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By Lesley Coffin (32) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 30 Aug 2016

In many ways, The Hollars feels like a bit of nostalgia of the 90s independent movement when studios supported little movies and intimate,…

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By G. Allen Johnson (514) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 30 Aug 2016

The film struggles so hard to be funny that the comic potential is diluted. In fact, sometimes it seems downright bland…

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By Pete Hammond (936) for Deadline Hollywood Daily (332) on 30 Aug 2016

John Krasinski delivers a movie that expertly blends laughs , tears and family dysfunction in way we can easily recognize…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 28 Aug 2016

There is little to commend in James C…

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By Avi Offer (997) for NYC Movie Guru (997) on 26 Aug 2016

Overstuffed, undercooked and corny despite its stellar cast. It's almost as cringe-worthy, clunky and painfully contrived as The Family Stone…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for indieWire (3,631) on 26 Aug 2016

Woefully inauthentic, milquetoast as a mild breeze and far too tidy for any of its sweeping resolutions to have even the faintest hint of staying…

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By S. Jhoanna Robledo (697) for Common Sense Media (4,943) on 25 Aug 2016

Uneven dysfunction dramedy benefits from strong cast…

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By Bernard Boo (61) for PopMatters (2,617) on 25 Aug 2016

Krasinski demonstrates a real knack for getting his actors to gel and flow and do their jobs well…

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By Kristy Puchko (422) for Nerdist (550) on 25 Aug 2016

Though he's collected a pretty stellar ensemble, Krasinski's execution lacks nuance, leaning hard into theatrical performances that undercut…

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By Matt Zoller Seitz (637) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 25 Aug 2016

Just good enough to make you wish that it were better…

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By Joe Dziemianowicz (76) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 25 Aug 2016

The cast, led by John Krasinski, who doubles as director, has its own fight against the lame and contrived script by Jim Strouse…

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By Jesse Hassenger (800) for AV Club (2,778) on 24 Aug 2016

John Krasinski’s second feature has such a milquetoast, melancholy-indie sound that its most arresting and dynamic musical moment comes when…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 24 Aug 2016

John Krasinski, as actor and director, tackles the most clichéd genre in the movie business — the dysfunctional family dramedy…

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By Gary Goldstein (1,089) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 24 Aug 2016

Strouse’s deft script and Krasinki’s game direction upend a host of familiar moments in ways that are fresh and unexpected — if sometimes…

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By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer (260) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 24 Aug 2016

The Hollars deals in weighty personal tragedies, and yet neither the treacly, offbeat humor nor the moments of more straightforward pathos…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 24 Aug 2016

A gooey morass of indie-movie clichés, the wacky-family dramedy The Hollars marks yet another egregiously cutesy attempt to rekindle that…

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