The Secret Lives of Dentists Reviews

Retrata com sensibilidade o cotidiano de uma família em crise e representa mais uma prova dos talentos de Scott e Davis.

| Original Score: 4/5

One of those quietly brilliant indies, so small in scope that it takes a little extra attention to appreciate how deeply it plunges into its characters.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

The Secret Lives of Dentists is a provocative title, promising much more than this domestic melodrama is able to deliver.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

...[T]he potency is abrogated by Rudolph's indulgent pretension of including Scott's personified conscience in the form of an obstreperous patient...

Full Review | Original Score: C

Rudolph's fondness for angular, oblique characterization is ideally suited to the movie's incidental story of sublimated feelings and contradictory impulses.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

Domestic scenes with the kids are drawn with letter-perfect naturalism.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Funny but not a comedy, slow but not plodding, narrow in scope but not uninteresting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4

For me (unlike some critics who have embraced this film), Leary becomes so persistent, so grating and so bloody irritating that I want to scream: Stop the madness! End the pain!

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5

Refuses to chuck us under our chins and tell us everything is OK.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

[Campbell Scott gives] a brilliant performance, with hints of humor, rage and agony all lurking around the edges.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

There are movies that have a way of hitting you at a certain time in your life, and this study of being married with young children speaks in satisfying ways.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The sly, little irony of The Secret Lives of Dentists is that their lives are pretty much the same as your typical accountant, electrician or secretary. And most likely, your life as well.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

It's often been said that we don't really know people, that we don't know what goes on in other people's marriages, no matter how intimate we may be with them. With this film, Rudolph sneaks us a peak.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

It's funny, honest enough to make you squirm and a film that may make you feel a little bit of the pain on the other side of that shrieking drill.

The material is just thoughtful enough and the performances just effective enough for the whole thing to work.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Rudolph's past work has been spotty, but his stress here on familial sovereignty is moving, as is his direction of the three children.

Davis ... quietly enriches any movie lucky enough to have her.

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Campbell Scott is fantastic as a wobbly man being torn asunder by the spectre of infidelity.

| Original Score: 3/4

Deeply felt.

| Original Score: 3/4

A faultlessly constructed, artistic look at love, loss and truths we can't ignore.

| Original Score: 4/5