Nothing extraordinary happens, and [director] Aradjis relies on Wood and Donowho to carry the slight thread of a film.
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05/16/08
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The Favor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:7
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.3/10
Reviews for The Favor
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It is a flawed but intriguing film that promises better things to come from its filmmaker.
05/16/08
Top CriticWhile people looking to get away from the big explosions and broad comedy that accompany most summer movies will appreciate the effort, this seems like the kind of thing you should be getting for free on TV.
05/09/08
Top CriticThe Favor is that rare film that at every turn exhibits good taste and a sense of restraint.
05/05/08
Top CriticA dreary, interminable drama written and directed by Eva Aridjis, is exactly one-third of a good movie.
05/02/08
Top CriticYet another small, "sensitive" character study of unassuming "little" folk trying their best under trying circumstances, all amounting to the purest banality.
05/02/08
The Favor ultimately takes itself too seriously and ends up stranded in an unconvincing no man’s land of cute bleakness.
05/01/08
Forgive me if I've already forgotten what The Favor is really about, but the truth is so does Miss Aridjis. So drastically in fact, that the film doesn't even qualify for After School Special exemption status.
05/01/08
Writer-director Eva Aridjis has a flat style that’s frankly numbing; Wood tries valiantly, but he and Donowho are both dragged down by the script.
04/30/08
As an unconscious parody of everything that's wrong with Indiewood, Eva Aridjis's The Favor is brilliant. Otherwise, it's an unwatchable nightmare that brought back bad memories of NYU screenwriting classes.
04/30/08
Top CriticDoesn't ever end up communicating anything other than its own capacity for sensitive understatement.
04/25/08
This accomplished and economical debut feature (2006) is refreshingly free of gimmicks, focusing squarely on the hero's awkward attempts to forge a relationship with the petulant teenager.
04/11/08
Top CriticThe Favor measures the costs of crushing disappointment and the strength of love, and though those themes are the stuff of soap opera, writer/director Eva Aridjis recruited just the right cast to keep the suds at bay.
04/10/08
Top CriticA tearjerker made credible by the director's patient pacing.
03/22/08
Overall, the film is alternately sweet and sad, amusing and moving.
06/24/06
It's an emotionally satisfying film, even a cathartic one, that deserves an audience.
06/23/06
All Aridjis can muster is inert drama and trite lessons.
06/15/06
Eva Aridjis invests her first fiction feature with rewarding depths of humor and feeling that go a long way toward redeeming the occasional tonal awkwardness or overstated emotion.
06/13/06
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