Average Rating: 5.3/10
Reviews Counted: 10
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 5
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A matriarch organizes a feast with her family, in which she will name her successor.
Jan 10, 2008 Wide
Cyan Pictures
All Critics (11) | Top Critics (1) | Fresh (5) | Rotten (5)
Assured handling and an appealing cast make this a deserving crowd-pleaser.
There's food for thought in 'Naming Number Two,' but staginess in conception and acting, bad pacing, and triteness are together too much to overcome.
An involving story, even if the story structure betrays its stage roots.
A dull and utterly routine ensemble dramedy.
Naming Number Two peddles familial reconciliation while making one pine for familial annihilation.
it works because Ruby Dee has willed it so
[A] generally torpid movie.
As usual, it's always up to the small budget indies to act as a corrective to Hollywood misperceptions and misconceptions, in this case the longstanding stereotypical depiction of elders.
Suffering from a formulaic story, ridden with clichés, the film has enough remarkable performances to make up for where it lacks. Not entirely, though.
Dee turns in a fine performance as Nana Maria.
A unique and heartfelt drama with some great pieces of acting and a fantastic fight scene to the song "Bathe in the River". Ruby Dee performs amazingly as the matriarch of the family.
February 23, 2008
¦wietny scenariusz. Aktorstwo takie sobie.
August 14, 2008
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