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By Ray Pride (544) for Newcity (539) on 01 Nov 2018

A 2018 Sundance entry, the shredded gentility is anchored by the innate strengths of Danner, illuminating from within a woman with Alzheimer's…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 31 Oct 2018

The movie manages to avoid nearly every family dealing with illness cliché one could ever imagine…

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By Monica Castillo (380) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 30 Oct 2018

Chomko’s grandmother was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, and she takes great effort to recreate a sense of that unique kind of pain,…

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By Harry Haun (78) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 30 Oct 2018

The dominant performance throughout remains Forster’s…

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By Susan Granger (2,214) for SSG Syndicate (1,551) on 30 Oct 2018

Courtesy of a star-studded cast, this is a sensitive, yet all-to--familiar, ultimately soapy family drama…

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By Anne Brodie (132) for What She Said (131) on 29 Oct 2018

Tough stuff sensitively delivered via compelling performances…

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By Maryann Johanson (2,701) for Flick Filosopher (2,694) on 27 Oct 2018

Simultaneously sharp and tender portrait of longstanding family squabbles and resentments finally coming to a head…

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By Al Alexander (533) for The Patriot Ledger (721) on 26 Oct 2018

Chomko unobtrusive direction renders a movie brimming with realism, particularly in her impeccable use of humor amid the pathos…

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By Kristy Strouse (51) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 26 Oct 2018

What They Had is an honest snapshot of a family during crisis, in all its inevitably chaotic shades…

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By Josh Martin (34) for Film Inquiry (1,269) on 26 Oct 2018

What They Had is genuine and moving in its depictions of hard moments near the end of life, but I just wish that raw, unadulterated emotion…

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By Kristian Harloff (339) for Schmoes Know (710) on 25 Oct 2018

It didn't hit quite the way they wanted it to...overall, still a well-made film and the performances are worth watching…

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By Chris Knight (998) for National Post (1,405) on 25 Oct 2018

Where Chomko's script excels is the way it sketches out the family dynamic and all its ever-moving, ever-changing clockwork parts…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 25 Oct 2018

There’s something quite beautiful and quite melancholy and sometimes achingly relatable about the tone of writer-director Elizabeth Chomko’s…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 25 Oct 2018

Incisively and touchingly sketches the impact a mother's slide into dementia has on her devoted husband and their grown children…

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By Deirdre Crimmins (265) for HighDef Digest (76) on 25 Oct 2018

The unrelatable characters and erratic story stop it just short of being universally approachable…

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By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 25 Oct 2018

Although there are a couple of wobbles, What They Had is buoyed by its terrific cast, Chicago locations and a surprising moment of spiritual…

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By Johanna Schneller (84) for Globe and Mail (2,419) on 24 Oct 2018

You may feel as if you've seen this movie before: Ruth has Alzheimer's, her husband Burt is in denial and their grown children Nick and Bridget…

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By Andrew Parker (194) for The Gate (178) on 24 Oct 2018

The key to buying into a film like What They Had is believing that the characters could be people viewers know and that their struggles could…

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By Bruce Demara (410) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 24 Oct 2018

What sets the film apart is the literate and insightful script by Elizabeth Chomko, who also directs, and a cast of stellar performers…

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By Mae Abdulbaki (411) for Movies with Mae (104) on 24 Oct 2018

What They Had is haunting, emotional, and everything from the acting to the unfolding of the story is beautifully crafted…

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