Critic Reviews

• Nelson Pressley, Washington Post

  It's a fable that's too fabulous by half.

• Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

  Because dark secrets always summon flashbacks, the telling of Tom's plunges us back to Greenwich Village, circa 1973. Sideburns sprout, classic rock proliferates and lapels run amok. Then the horror really begins.

• John Hartl, Seattle Times

  The kind of personal film that fails in a way that makes your teeth ache. It's obviously a labor of love on the part of its first-time writer-director, but as a coming-of-age memoir it lacks charm, originality and taste.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  A sweet but inept coming-of-age tale.

• Connie Ogle, Miami Herald

  Duchovny displays a firm sense of time and place and genuine affection for all his characters, offering up plenty of amusing running gags and, most courageously, unabashed emotion.

• Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail

  In need of a tighter narrative and, more importantly, a raison d'être.

• Charles Cassady, Common Sense Media

  Off-putting drama of growing up male in the 1970s.

• Prairie Miller, Long Island Press

  Nothing wrong with working out borderline incestuous fixation issues. But a film still has to be more than your very own shrink, and reach out to the audience and rise above psychodrama interplay more suited to the therapist couch.

• Prairie Miller, Long Island Press

  Nothing wrong with working out borderline incestuous fixation issues. But a film still has to be more than your very own shrink, and reach out to the audience and rise above psychodrama interplay more suited to the therapist couch.

• Shirley Sealy, Film Journal International

  While his script is good, even poetic at times, it certainly cannot be called an outstanding effort.

• Stefan Ulstein, Christianity Today

  House of D is a delightful coming of age drama/comedy that deals with weighty matters of the soul.

• Eric D. Snider, EricDSnider.com

  Not only does Robin Williams play a retarded man with fake teeth, but he also gets to wear old-age makeup. It's the schmaltz trifecta!

• Greg Maki, Star-Democrat (Easton, MD)

  ... In this house, "D" is for dull.

• Jordan Hiller, Bangitout.com

  David Duchovny's first stab at writing and directing takes him to a place close to his heart - the New York of his youth.

• Matt Brunson, Creative Loafing

  Maybe not a "D," but this coming-of-age yarn from writer-director-actor David Duchovny certainly rates no better than a "C."

• Thomas Delapa, Boulder Weekly

  Were it not for the cast attached to this project, I doubt it would ever see the inside of a movie-house.

• Larry Ratliff, San Antonio Express-News

  Duchovny cares dearly for these characters. ... Unfortunately, he's little more than a novice when it comes to keeping clichés out of the storytelling process.

• John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

  As synthetic and embarrassing as the knit lace-up shirt the 12-year-old hero wears to his first boy-girl dance.

• Ken Hanke, Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

  Somewhere in between a good first effort and a fascinating train wreck.

• Collin Souter, eFilmCritic.com

  There exists a difference between stylized dialogue and trite, hackneyed dialogue.

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