Reunion (2009)

Critic Reviews

• , New York Post

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

• Ronnie Scheib, Variety

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

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

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

• Nathan Lee, New York Times

  This may not be quite the moment to solicit our sympathy for self-absorbed beneficiaries of Ivy League privilege.

• Andrew Sarris, New York Observer

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

• Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

  Not so much a Big Chill knockoff as a poor man's Whit Stillman comedy.

• Leo Goldsmith, indieWIRE

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

• Susan Granger, SSG Syndicate

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

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

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

• John P. McCarthy, Boxoffice Magazine

  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.

• Erica Abeel, Film Journal International

  This reunion of old college friends gets a leaden treatment in what is effectively a one-act play posing as a film.

• Nick Schager, The Screengrab

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

• Marshall Fine, Hollywood & Fine

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

• Mark Holcomb, Time Out New York

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

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  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.

• Simon Abrams, Slant Magazine

  A soap opera disguised as a serious chamber drama in the tradition of Paddy Chayefsky.

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