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Reunion (2009)

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Reviews Counted:15

Fresh:1

Rotten:14

Average Rating:3.6/10

Rated: Not Rated

Genre: Dramas

Theatrical Release:Nov 30, 1999 Limited

Starring: Christopher McDonald, Zoe McLellan, Cynthia Stevenson, Alice Evans

Starring: Christopher McDonald, Zoe McLellan, Cynthia Stevenson, Alice Evans, Brett Cullen, Jessica Hecht, Jamey Sheridan

Director: Alan Hruska

Director: Alan Hruska
Screenwriter: Alan Hruska

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It's a wonder a group of experienced film professionals could not make "Reunion" look and sound the least bit proficient or even entertaining

Full Review Source: indieWIRE | comment Comment
08/08/09
Leo Goldsmith
Leo Goldsmith
indieWIRE

Filled with psychobabble, it comes across as a muddled melodrama about entitled elitists.

Full Review Source: SSG Syndicate | comment Comment
03/10/09
Susan Granger
Susan Granger
SSG Syndicate

Despite a terrific cast, it suffers from a lazy and dull screenplay that fails to generate any palpable drama or memorable characters.

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03/06/09
Avi Offer
Avi Offer
NYC Movie Guru

No one's problems inspire much interest, and the stuffy banality of the dialogue is multiplied by the lackluster surroundings.

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03/06/09
New York Post
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The characters' narcissism spills over into the audience and rather than sympathize or empathize, your instinct is to protect yourself from them and their mid-life crises.

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03/06/09
John P. McCarthy
John P. McCarthy
Boxoffice Magazine

A drearily pretentious, ultra-stagy exercise in middle-age self-loathing.

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03/06/09
Ronnie Scheib
Ronnie Scheib
Variety
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A respectable B-list cast (Cynthia Stevenson, Jessica Hecht, Christopher McDonald) wades through a sludgy script that finds estranged friends reuniting decades after college.

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03/06/09
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News
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This may not be quite the moment to solicit our sympathy for self-absorbed beneficiaries of Ivy League privilege.

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03/06/09
Nathan Lee
Nathan Lee
New York Times
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This reunion of old college friends gets a leaden treatment in what is effectively a one-act play posing as a film.

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03/06/09
Erica Abeel
Erica Abeel
Film Journal International

A Big Chill-ish enterprise whose serious intentions aren't enough to compensate for the two-dimensionality of its stock archetypes.

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03/06/09
Nick Schager
Nick Schager
The Screengrab

Provocative and thoughtful, a movie that can't help but make you take a long look at yourself.

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03/05/09
Marshall Fine
Marshall Fine
Hollywood & Fine

As well versed in these characters and their milieu as Hruska may be, their dilemmas seem guessed-at rather than lived.

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03/04/09
Mark Holcomb
Mark Holcomb
Time Out New York

There's not much reason to check out this shameless rip-off of The Big Chill, unless you've never seen the original, and you're inclined to watch a bunch of entitled Ivy Leaguers acting out like spoiled brats in the midst of a midlife crisis.

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03/04/09
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

Since no one in the cast is a household name, the series of confessions and critiques resemble nothing so much as actors’ auditions.

Full Review Source: New York Observer | comment Comment
03/04/09
Andrew Sarris
Andrew Sarris
New York Observer
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Not so much a Big Chill knockoff as a poor man's Whit Stillman comedy.

Full Review Source: Village Voice | comment Comment
03/03/09
Aaron Hillis
Aaron Hillis
Village Voice
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