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Critics Consensus: About Alex pointedly provokes comparisons to The Big Chill, but the script doesn't have enough substance to support them -- or give its talented cast enough to work with.
Critic Consensus: About Alex pointedly provokes comparisons to The Big Chill, but the script doesn't have enough substance to support them -- or give its talented cast enough to work with.
All Critics (39) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (17) | Rotten (22)
Neither the script's up-to-the-minute signifiers nor its cheekily self-aware humor can entirely dispel a formulaic feel.
The intelligence and unhackneyed humor of the believable, unself-conscious screenplay by fledgling director Mr. Zwick (son of veteran director Edward Zwick) deserves special praise. It never hits a false note.
I was pleasantly surprised by much of "About Alex," a film that features a stronger-than-average ensemble for this subgenre even if it too often succumbs to predictable, traditional turns of Screenwriting 101.
The chronicle of a less self-absorbed generation, it's less annoying than The Big Chill but also less funny.
Only Plaza's performance as the troubled Sarah comes close to creating a three-dimensional character.
The insight that social media fosters false intimacy is old news. The film shows only a half-formed sense of how careers have changed in 30 years.
Most of the characters are superficial and underdeveloped, while the film itself is filled with predictable scenarios. Strong performances by the cast elevate the material, but it's simply not enough.
Perhaps we can view this in 30 years as a lightweight text mirroring some of Occupy Wall Street, and perhaps the rise of Elizabeth Warren, although I'm quite sure it will be forgotten about well before then.
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A riff on the 1983 classic The Big Chill, this ensemble drama's reunion of old friends differs because Alex's suicide fails this time.
Ultimately, the portrayals in About Alex are all caricatures that don't really ring true.
The whole movie feels like sitting through a monologue read by over-privileged millennials reading pages from their pubescent diary, sharing shallow revelations about crushes and car envy.
Excellent. This is a thoroughly entertaining film, filled with emotionally-moving characters who feel very real. Worth seeing.
Super Reviewer
Amusingly the screenplay completely misses something that is totally obvious about these people . . . that none of them should continue to be friends. True to the blind optimism my generation often has about itself the film, against all the evidence it presents to the contrary, forces the characters to believe that their friendships still have meaning.
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