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Old Joy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:69
Rotten:13
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: A serene, melancholy beauty permeates this meditative portrait of deep friendship and faded glory.
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09/23/06
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04/23/09
Let us say simply that Ms. Reichardt’s brand of minimalism leaves me truly joyless.
10/11/06
Top CriticAnnoying, blank, and bereft of any narrative arc "Old Joy" has nothing familiar or enchanting to recommend it.
04/21/09
A monster movie where the monster doesn't show up. zzzzzzzzz..
09/30/06
A minimalist stroll not worth taking...but if Old Joy doesn't do much, at least it doesn't do it for very long.
05/01/07
What results from all the lack of talk is so underdeveloped and reed thin as to be ungraspable.
09/01/06
Kelly Reichardt's minimalist buddy film about two former roommates on an overnight camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains features some of the year's most beautiful scenery and two of its most wooden characters.
09/22/06
Top CriticThough it's well-intentioned and runs barely more than an hour, this slowly paced character study gets tiresome in a hurry.
12/08/06
Some movies say a lot by saying little; Old Joy seems content to just stay quiet.
02/02/07
Only the alt-country score by Yo La Tengo makes any of this bearable.
09/20/06
Top CriticEven as a short film, OLD JOY drags and feels padded.
08/31/06
Old Joy is as dull and doomed as the men's friendship.
11/30/06
It plays for a scant 73 minutes, but if feels as long as a Wagner opera.
11/30/06
Top CriticTo my mind, there was a lot of wasted time -- repetitive shots of scenery from a moving car that felt more like padding than "atmosphere," as if the movie makers had to create a feature length for a project that just as easily and perhaps more effect
09/23/06
A palpable air of melancholy hangs over this two-man character piece like the Pacific Northwest's overcast skies, a chilly reminder that yesterday's good times are over and tomorrow may not be much fun.
09/19/06
Old Joy (adapted by writer Jonathan Raymond from his own short story) is only 76 minutes long, but it has the contemplative power of Buddhist meditation.
09/21/06
Top Criticif you are not afraid of tranquility, if your favorite part of Antonioni's "Blowup" is the tennis game with the imaginary ball, or if you carry a joint in your Velamints tin, "Old Joy" will be your joy.
09/01/06
What makes it fascinating is director Kelly Reichardt's single-minded focus on a certain type of relationship.
03/21/06
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