Review of Toni Erdmann (2016) by Brent_Marchant — 27 Jan 2017

While the sentiments are in the right place, this overlong, episodic, painfully obvious offering consistently disappoints just when you think it's about to start going somewhere. Despite some genuinely hilarious sequences that, regrettably, are spaced too far apart, this meditation on the things that matter in life is too slow and at times too forced to deserve the high praise it has been getting (including an Oscar nomination for best foreign language film that should have gone to a number of other more worthwhile pictures).

A nice try but ultimately a big miss.