Critic Reviews

• J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader

  Sherwood Kiraly's slight script only makes this embarrassment of riches seem more embarrassing.

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  Alda's Hawkeye Pierce charm gives way to something snappish and cagey, while Broderick's fussy stiffness is perfect.

• Manohla Dargis, New York Times

  The actors look as if they're having a reasonably fine time, but there's no sense of commitment here, no sense that this was a movie that absolutely, passionately had to be made.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  A mild pleasure from one end to the other, but not much more.

• Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

  Striving for low-key character comedy, Diminished Capacity ends up diminishing its returns.

• Claudia Puig, USA Today

  It has moments of sweetness, but not enough poignancy or wit to turn it into the endearing art-house comedy that it aspires to be.

• Victor Olliver, Teletext

  It's quite easy: either go get a sedative and calm down, dear. Or see this gentle and frankly boring-as-hell movie.

• Pete Hammond, Hollywood.com

  This Sundance hit is a sleeper surprise of the summer -- a one-of-a-kind original.

• Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

  A gentle, agreeable dramedy, Capacity reveals that Kinney has a unique hold on tone and shares a palpable charm with his actors.

• Jules Brenner, Cinema Signals

  Suffering from a diminished level of interest, do we know how to live up to a title, or what?

• Frederica Mathewes-Green, Christianity Today

  I wonder if all this worked better as a book. It begins modestly interesting, but becomes merely agitated.

• Noel Murray, AV Club

  Didn't we invent film festivals so we could sequester all the star-studded 'how I spent my summer vacation' indie film projects and keep them out of our arthouses?

• Jeanne Kaplan, Kaplan vs. Kaplan

  Although this is no 'Ferris Bueller's Day Off', Matthew Broderick does return to Chicago for a wonderful, wacky little gem.

• David Kaplan, Kaplan vs. Kaplan

  There is some suspense as to the fate of that baseball card.

• Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine

  A slog through determined wackiness, it's apt to leave audiences cold.

• Lewis Beale, Film Journal International

  Smart and well-written, filled with good lines and just enough offbeat moments to make it interesting, not annoying.

• Christopher Campbell, Cinematical

  The problem with this film ... is that it features too many other sad sack characters who ... contribute to an excess of sad-sackness.

• Geoff Berkshire, Metromix.com

  A movie about memory loss shouldn't be so forgettable.

• James Rocchi, Common Sense Media

  Bland indie comedy isn't very memorable.

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