Critic Reviews

• Kerry Lengel, Arizona Republic

  "Reuniting the Rubins" may walk like a comedy and quack like a comedy, but despite the absurd extremes to which it takes the squabbling-family formula, it inspires nary a chuckle.

• Dennis Harvey, Variety

  Theoretical laughter, tears and maudlin contrivance ensue.

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  A frantic, badly constructed, slightly offensive muddle that doesn't so much end as run out of things on a checklist.

• Neil Genzlinger, New York Times

  The script includes little back story and lots of button-pushing shorthand, none of which feels genuine...

• Eric Hynes, Village Voice

  What happens when you put a rabbi, a Buddhist monk, a high-strung capitalist, and a lesbian humanitarian together in the same room? Not comedy, it turns out.

• Chuck Bowen, Slant Magazine

  Yoav Factor can't decide whether he wants to play his broad scenario as an exaggerated farce or as a heartwarming testament to blood ties.

• Simon Gallagher, What Culture

  Reuniting the Rubins is harmless, unspectacular comedy, let down by a poor script and light-weight direction, which might have been more at home on a Sunday on ITV. It isn't the worst thing you'll see this year, but it will be difficult to remember.

• Kevin Harley, Total Film

  An ensemble piece wobbling between undercooked drama and low-powered farce...

• David Parkinson, Radio Times

  A mediocre sitcom with too many preachy subplots.

• Philip French, Observer [UK]

  Most people would rather spend five years in a Hamas dungeon than endure their company.

• Sam Bathe, Fan The Fire

  There are some films so bad, they don't warrant a review. This is one of them.

• Anthony Quinn, Independent

  Give me an oy. Give me a vey.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  It's a decent idea gone wrong for want of a better script and tighter direction.

• Allan Hunter, Daily Express

  Like a cheap, uninspired ITV bank holiday drama in which a decent cast is left stranded by a lousy script and lifeless direction.

• Catherine Shoard, Guardian [UK]

  Rubins ultimately sinks beneath the weight of its own gubbins.

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  A contrived script and clunky direction undermine this British film, which veers from silly comedy to harsh drama to dark tragedy.

• Graham Young, Birmingham Post

  The film has its moments, but the score is so achingly intrusive I felt I was suffering from Rubinoid arthritis.

• Eve Barlow, Empire Magazine

  As dysfunctional movie families go, the Rubins hardly linger in the memory.

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