The Oranges Reviews
Observer [UK]
The acting almost varnishes the fractured surface, enabling the audience to accept the film as a deeply felt, feelgood family comedy.
Digital Spy
The dialogue's much saltier and sharper than you expect from a drama that's essentially playing it safe.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Contactmusic.com
There's plenty of potential for jagged black humour in this suburban comedy-drama, but the filmmakers never take a single risk.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
This is London
The movie's horribly jaunty soundtrack is a problem. Ditto the blah camera-work. But mostly it's the script, which turns out to be spineless.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Radio Times
It's all mildly amusing, if fairly obvious, stuff and it's impeccably played by the superb cast. But you can't help feeling that they all deserve something rather more worthy of their talents.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Sun Online
How much you enjoy this comedy will depend upon how gross you consider the idea of a married 50-year-old father having an affair with his best friend's 24-year-old daughter.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Little White Lies
A tricky social conundrum is boiled down, lightly prodded and then forgotten by the roadside. Shame.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Guardian [UK]
Disappoints with its gooey liberalism and its failure to find a convincing dramatic register for the central relationship.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Flick Filosopher
I'm not sure a better cast has ever gone more ickily astray than in this most misbegotten of dramedies.
Daily Express
It's no classic but diverting enough. At the very least it will most likely put your family Christmas feuds into perspective.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Telegraph
Marital crisis in the New Jersey suburbs feels like yesterday's soggy granola in this impressively witless clone of American Beauty.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Financial Times
Sporadic in its own sparkle, middling in its wit, the film will be required viewing mainly for Hugh Laurie phenomenologists ...
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| Original Score: 3/5
ViewLondon
Engaging dysfunctional family comedy-drama with terrific performances from a superb ensemble cast, though it's not quite as edgy as it should have been.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Sky Movies
An honest look into stale relationships and an ultimately optimistic view of how things can change even if they initially appear slightly ikky.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Birmingham Post
Beautifully acted, lovingly shot and something of a pre-Christmas treat to enjoy, one segment at a time.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Top CriticThe intervention of Tony Soprano, who lives not far away, is urgently called for.
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| Original Score: 1/5
The List
With Laurie and Meester on credible form, The Oranges remains a juicy comic odyssey, pithy to its core.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Daily Star
An enjoyable but largely forgettable comedy drama.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Scotsman
It's overfamiliar stuff, played out in a sitcom-style, and despite some distinguished acting, The Oranges has limited appeal, unless you are Woody Allen.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Total Film
An off-kilter script and winning turns from Laurie, Janney and Meester help disguise how much the film is hedging its bets, flirting with a darkness it never quite dares to embrace.
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| Original Score: 3/5
