Critic Reviews

• Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle

  "The Details" is not just entertaining, but potentially useful.

• John Hartl, Seattle Times

  As the title suggests, it's all in the details, which writer-director Estes provides in large if not always convincing doses.

• Tom Long, Detroit News

  It's hard to make a fine actress like Laura Linney look off-key and shrill, but "The Details" manages to do just that. It's hardly an accomplishment.

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  "The Details" cancels itself out by being too campy to take seriously and too tragic to laugh at.

• Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post

  "The Details" wears its quirky heart on its sleeve, signaling (and smirking at) its own silliness, at every opportunity, with an intrusively antic score that makes everything sound like a giant joke.

• Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times

  It all adds up to create a dicey morality tale that's as improbable as it is strangely believable.

• Bill Gibron, Film Racket

  a painfully dull slog through an exceedingly stupid subdivision

• Todd Jorgenson, Cinemalogue.com

  The script is somewhat provocative in its examination of relationships during absurd circumstances, but its twists eventually become less compelling.

• Sean Means, Salt Lake Tribune

  Estes never seems to find the balance between dark farce and existential drama, and the cast - especially the goofy Maguire - is left trying to sort it all out.

• Brian Orndorf, Blu-ray.com

  There are a few highlights worth a look and an accomplished supporting cast to ease the oddity along, yet The Details doesn't add up to much despite its rather elaborate design of misery.

• David Noh, Film Journal International

  It's a Weinstein release, but I don't foresee any big Oscar push for this wacky misfire.

• Mike McGranaghan, Aisle Seat

  The longer it went on, the more eager I was for it to be over.

• James Verniere, Boston Herald

  A very well cast, R-rated TV sitcom.

• S. Jhoanna Robledo, Common Sense Media

  Bad choices and immoral acts go unpunished in dark comedy.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  The wacky is forced and unfunny and the misery is nowhere near wretched enough.

• Roger Moore, McClatchy-Tribune News Service

  Maguire, given the chance to play "a dirty philanderer" and "a cheating, cat-killing liar," wrings every laugh he can out of this character. He may not be Spider-Man any longer, but his bug eyes never let him down.

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