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Critics Consensus: An unconventional, heartfelt blend of fact and fiction.
Critic Consensus: An unconventional, heartfelt blend of fact and fiction.
All Critics (46) | Top Critics (19) | Fresh (35) | Rotten (11) | DVD (3)
[A] charming and original little comedy.
The whimsy Greenebaum wants to construct can't match the terminal sadness that naturally takes over the film.
Assisted Living is a remarkably moving look at the prisons in our midst that most of us manage to ignore until we need them.
Authentically unconventional -- opening in the form of an almost convincing mock documentary -- but it gradually evolves into something more deeply affecting.
It's a sensitive portrayal of a jolly, caring environment that unwittingly converts its charges into helpless infants.
Works more than it doesn't, though it's easy to conclude that the film exploits some of the elderly in the movie.
Sensitively considers the potential for liberation of the mind from the shackles of the aging body, no matter how deteriorated that physical human essence might be.
There is a certain meditative grace to the cinematography here, but after a while, well, I was just plain bored.
It's a slight movie, setting a poignant scene but not quite filling out even its running time. Still, I like its wry sense of humor and compassionate heart.
There is a tender, poignant story in here... worthy of a great 20-minute short, not enough to fill writer-director Elliot Greenebaum's rambling mock-documentary.
Has a few enlightening moments but has just as many that are tedious.
Watching the movie is like conducting a conversation with a loved one stricken by Alzheimer's: It's at once moving and maddening.
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