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By Duane Dudek (861) for Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (1,693) on 17 Jan 2008

The moral is: Don't get sick and don't get old…

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By Ken Hanke (2,234) for Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) (2,247) on 15 Jan 2008

More often than not, it's a film that rings true and has much to offer…

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By David Nusair (3,363) for Reel Film Reviews (3,339) on 15 Jan 2008

Hoffman and Linney ably step into their complex, sporadically unlikable characters…

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By Beverly Berning (44) for culturevulture.net (793) on 15 Jan 2008

The Savages, writer/director Tamara Jenkins's second film, is easily the best comedy of the year…

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By Anna Smith (519) for BBC.com (1,500) on 01 Jan 2008

It's just a shame the script doesn't push the humour further; brief, amusing put-downs aren't quite enough to make this a bonafide comedy…

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By James Kendrick (1,607) for Q Network Film Desk (1,607) on 01 Jan 2008

Jenkins is a provocateur to be sure, but she also has a heart, which is why her films don't come across as mean even when dealing comically…

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By Gina Carbone (187) for Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine) (187) on 31 Dec 2007

Painfully poignant, earnest, sad, witty and beautiful. Pretty depressing up until the final, uplifting scene…

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By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 29 Dec 2007

Hoffman, Linney and Bosco together generate such magnificent performances projecting a richly textured sense of the agony and ecstasy of a…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 26 Dec 2007

Powerful, painful and yet unerringly funny as it points out our emotional and physical vulnerabilities, this is a film that finds the humor…

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By Chris Hewitt (St. Paul) (2,277) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 26 Dec 2007

A comedy of discomfort, The Savages is a brilliantly acted film about people who are kidding themselves, a state of being that is as funny…

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By Colin Covert (1,936) for Minneapolis Star Tribune (2,416) on 26 Dec 2007

The film is savagely funny about the indignities of old age, yet optimistic that it's never too late to have a happy childhood…

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By Chris Hewitt (2,086) for St. Paul Pioneer Press (4,360) on 26 Dec 2007

A comedy of discomfort, The Savages is a brilliantly acted film about people who are kidding themselves, a state of being that is as funny…

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By Robert W. Butler (884) for Kansas City Star (1,573) on 26 Dec 2007

The Savages isn't so much about plot as about moments, and this film -- thanks to Linney and Hoffman -- is filled with keepers…

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By Cherryl Dawson And Leigh Ann Palone (956) for TheMovieChicks.com (956) on 21 Dec 2007

In the end it's worth a look, but you might wish you had some of Wendy's happy pills that she ripped off from her father's dead girlfriend…

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By Susan Walker (133) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 21 Dec 2007

The dynamic that operates throughout this film is fantasy versus reality, not just in the lives of the characters but in American life in general…

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By Mick Lasalle (3,303) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 21 Dec 2007

The right mix of humor and horror and with not even a shred of sentimentality…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 21 Dec 2007

Both Linney and Hoffman are so specific in creating these characters that we see them as people, not elements in a plot…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) (630) on 21 Dec 2007

Writer-director Tamara Jenkins ... allows the movie its real-life bitterness without pushing it over into despair…

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By Carrie Rickey (1,198) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 21 Dec 2007

A movie of absurdist humor, brutal realism and dementia…

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By Mark Dujsik (2,093) for Mark Reviews Movies (2,037) on 20 Dec 2007

Predictably unconventional, indulgently metafictional, and hesitant about going for its alluded intentions…

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