The Oranges Reviews

Kind of like a takedown of the suburbs written by the people who designed the menu at Olive Garden: It's inoffensive, forgettable, and you don't actually have to chew anything.

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The intervention of Tony Soprano, who lives not far away, is urgently called for.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Oh, suburbia: how we love condescending to thee.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

There's not enough tension for the humor to diffuse. What we're left with is a bland dramedy featuring a strong cast.

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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.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

All the actors, particularly double-take experts Keener and Janney, have been in much better movies than this.

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'The Oranges' needed to be either much funnier - or draw blood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4

"The Oranges" answers in the affirmative a question you probably weren't asking: Are the movies still recycling "American Beauty"?

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

[VIDEO ESSAY] Barely a spark of humor ever pops in a would-be romantic comedy with nowhere to go.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

Mature dramedy doesn't deliver on interesting premise.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Sporadic in its own sparkle, middling in its wit, the film will be required viewing mainly for Hugh Laurie phenomenologists ...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Plays more like a Showtime sitcom pilot that never got picked up because it was too boring to maintain week to week.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.0/5.0

A tricky social conundrum is boiled down, lightly prodded and then forgotten by the roadside. Shame.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

There's nothing wrong with this story, except that it's so mundane.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Indicts suburban routine while indulging only in formula itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Great cast squandered in a flimsy finale.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5

Essentially, the movie feels like a one-night-stand that's overstayed its welcome.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

I'm not sure a better cast has ever gone more ickily astray than in this most misbegotten of dramedies.

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