Family Law (2006)
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Reviews Counted:40
Fresh:30
Rotten:10
Average Rating:6.8/10
Consensus: What Family Law lacks in overt drama and conflict, it more than makes us with warm performances and smart, sharp dialogue.
Theatrical Release:Dec 6, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: Ariel Perelman is an attorney, like his father. And, because it is customary in Argentina to do so, the people refer to them both as Dr Perelman--regardless of whether they mean the father or the... [More]
Starring: Adriana Aizemberg, Damian Dreizik, Daniel Hendler, Jean Pierre Reguerraz
Director: Daniel Burman
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Reviews for Family Law
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Family Law has a sweet sense of how families try to interact and connect... There's nothing big about this film but it's filled with small joys and insights. Full Review |
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B- |
It's a nice film, offering a few smiles and very likable performances. It could stand to have its themes fleshed out a little more, though. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Full of subtle dark humor that won't make you bend with laughter but certainly may cause you to giggle. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
...a charming and low-key effort from Argentina which was their contender for the foreign language Oscar, though it didn't get nominated. Full Review |
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 2.5/4 |
Burman based this comedy-drama on his experiences as a new father, and the results are warmly observational but slightly navel-gazing. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
Drastically overplotted and overwritten and could have used some editing to make it a tighter, more modest character piece. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
A subtly perceptive charmer that was Argentina's entry for a best foreign film Oscar and might have been nominated in a less competitive year. Full Review |
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The lessons of this slight human comedy are not groundbreaking, but they do strike a warmly universal chord. Full Review |
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B- |
Every movie is made up of certain nuts and bolts, and in Family Law they seem, quite frankly, a little loose. Full Review |
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This observant little movie does delicately touch on those unspoken assumptions that animate so many filial relationships. And the wry, soft-spoken tone is a welcome one amid the dysfunctional burlesques Hollywood routinely extrudes. Full Review |
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3/6 |
With its slack plotting, the film itself feels as aimless as its main character. Full Review |
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3/4 |
Family Law offers a sweet, understated perspective on the psychological dance of wariness, hope and acceptance that occurs between many a father and son. Full Review |
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3.5/4 |
Family Law [is] one of the best examinations of [fathers and sons] ever committed to celluloid. Full Review |
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2.5/5 |
This delicate, bittersweet comedy prepares you for an eruption of high drama that never arrives.
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A deft, witty and emotionally rewarding study of a thirtysomething man in his roles as father and son. Full Review |
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Particularly good at the tiny details that become recognition points in daily patterns. Full Review |
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[Director Daniel] Burman's beguiling tribute to his Jewish father -- or, for all I know, the one he wishes he had -- is warm and deep enough to give humanism a good name. Full Review |
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2.5/4 |
A pleasant, crisply paced look at a wary character. Full Review |
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