All Aridjis can muster is inert drama and trite lessons.
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The Favor (2008)
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Reviews Counted:18
Fresh:7
Rotten:11
Average Rating:5.3/10
Reviews for The Favor
1 - 18 (sorted by critic A-Z)
A dreary, interminable drama written and directed by Eva Aridjis, is exactly one-third of a good movie.
05/02/08
Top CriticEva Aridjis invests her first fiction feature with rewarding depths of humor and feeling that go a long way toward redeeming the occasional tonal awkwardness or overstated emotion.
06/13/06
Top CriticForgive me if I've already forgotten what The Favor is really about, but the truth is so does Miss Aridjis. So drastically in fact, that the film doesn't even qualify for After School Special exemption status.
05/01/08
While people looking to get away from the big explosions and broad comedy that accompany most summer movies will appreciate the effort, this seems like the kind of thing you should be getting for free on TV.
05/09/08
Top CriticDoesn't ever end up communicating anything other than its own capacity for sensitive understatement.
04/25/08
A tearjerker made credible by the director's patient pacing.
03/22/08
This accomplished and economical debut feature (2006) is refreshingly free of gimmicks, focusing squarely on the hero's awkward attempts to forge a relationship with the petulant teenager.
04/11/08
Top CriticIt is a flawed but intriguing film that promises better things to come from its filmmaker.
05/16/08
Top CriticNothing extraordinary happens, and [director] Aradjis relies on Wood and Donowho to carry the slight thread of a film.
05/16/08
The Favor measures the costs of crushing disappointment and the strength of love, and though those themes are the stuff of soap opera, writer/director Eva Aridjis recruited just the right cast to keep the suds at bay.
04/10/08
Top CriticYet another small, "sensitive" character study of unassuming "little" folk trying their best under trying circumstances, all amounting to the purest banality.
05/02/08
The Favor is that rare film that at every turn exhibits good taste and a sense of restraint.
05/05/08
Top CriticAs an unconscious parody of everything that's wrong with Indiewood, Eva Aridjis's The Favor is brilliant. Otherwise, it's an unwatchable nightmare that brought back bad memories of NYU screenwriting classes.
04/30/08
Top CriticWriter-director Eva Aridjis has a flat style that’s frankly numbing; Wood tries valiantly, but he and Donowho are both dragged down by the script.
04/30/08
It's an emotionally satisfying film, even a cathartic one, that deserves an audience.
06/23/06
Overall, the film is alternately sweet and sad, amusing and moving.
06/24/06
The Favor ultimately takes itself too seriously and ends up stranded in an unconvincing no man’s land of cute bleakness.
05/01/08
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