Any Day Now Reviews
Top CriticToo much of "Any Day Now" founders in cliche and predictable table-turning and point-scoring instead of building a set of complicated characters at odds with a biased system.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Switches between a few primary modes -- agenda-mentary, romance, courtroom drama, tearjerker -- without engaging very convincingly in any of them.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Gets its point across, and its sad drama. And it spotlights a marvelous performance by Alan Cumming.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Cumming is wonderful, and you know something? Trying a little understanding sure doesn't hurt.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
There's no denying the power of Cumming, Leyva and Dillahunt's performances, nor the tragedy and injustice of the situation.
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| Original Score: B-
Cumming is the linchpin, and the actor does an exceptional job of moving across the vast galaxy of universal emotions about partners and parenthood. He takes us to the heart of the matter in ways that matter most.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
An outraged, unblinking depiction of institutionalized homophobia three decades ago, when the prevailing court opinion in adoption cases was that exposing a child to a homosexual environment was harmful.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
It would take a heart of stone - or zero tolerance for soap - to resist Any Day Now, a full-throttle weepie about a West Hollywood gay couple trying to adopt a neglected boy with Down syndrome.
The script seems almost religiously adverse to Hallmark-style melodrama.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Director Travis Fine gives his period details flourish and lets Cumming and Dillahunt create well-rounded characters, but "Any Day Now" winds up treacly.
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| Original Score: 2/5
The bare-bones script is fleshed out by Cumming and Dillahunt, who create characters that are as memorable as they are moving.
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| Original Score: 3/4
The intent is righteous. The dramatic overkill is deadly.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Straining for "teachable moments," the film has one noteworthy, unintentional function: to remind us that though LGBT rights are continually evolving, the laws of kitsch remain immutable.
Acting from beneath the least flattering haircut this side of the Bee Gees, Cumming delivers what is possibly his best performance to date.
Alan Cumming has never been nominated for an Oscar, but director Travis Fine's powerful, fact-based movie could be the breakthrough role that makes it happen.
Depictions of custody battles have become a cinematic staple, but few register with the heartfelt emotion of Any Day Now.
