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
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
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
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
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
Daily Film Fix
Less predictable than other films of its ilk, THE ORANGES proves to be a real indie charmer. It's aided by the excellent cast who all stay committed to the material even when things begin to go for Hollywood goofiness rather than gritty reality.
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| Original Score: 5.5/10
Tolucan Times
... deep and dark but laugh out loud funny.
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| Original Score: 9/10
Examiner.com
The Oranges will more than likely be forgettable in the long run, but it isn't a bad little film and has a pretty decent message for the time you're able to remember it.
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| Original Score: 6/10
Top CriticAs a seven-year veteran of the New Jersey suburban experience, I can testify that it nails the milieu's specifics.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Its concerns are not the usual movie concerns, and it takes what might have been a standard plot in some unexpected directions.
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| Original Score: 3/4
It's a familiar story made fresh by actors who know how to make each breath matter.
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| Original Score: 3/4
What I liked was the movie's feel for the emotional mess and ambivalence of family ties, and its openness without hysteria to the fact that some of those ties might fray beyond repair.
When it's funny, it's laugh-out-loud funny, yet when the situation calls for groans of vicarious embarrassment, it provides them in spades.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Laurie and Meester are both likable actors, and a good thing; otherwise the audience reaction would probably be something similar to that of their families.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Hollywood.com
A great cast can be a powerful weapon. In the case of the new family dramedy 'The Oranges', it's the saving grace.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
