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Jimmy P. has interesting ideas and talented stars, but director Arnaud Desplechin can't seem to figure out how to bring them together.
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This intelligent movie becomes a gentle reproof of prejudice and ignorance, and I wish I could find some excitement in it. Sep 22, 2014 | Full Review…
This intelligent movie becomes a gentle reproof of prejudice and ignorance, and I wish I could find some excitement in it.
David Denby
Honestly, it's hard to see why "Jimmy P." was ever made. Mar 7, 2014 | Rating: D+ | Full Review…
Honestly, it's hard to see why "Jimmy P." was ever made.
Tom Long
Avoiding the usual therapy-drama story beats, Desplechin has made a densely satisfying drama about Freud, racism, and sympathy in its largest sense. Mar 6, 2014 | Full Review…
Avoiding the usual therapy-drama story beats, Desplechin has made a densely satisfying drama about Freud, racism, and sympathy in its largest sense.
Ty Burr
A fascinating cross-cultural experiment that eventually runs itself into the ground. Feb 28, 2014 | Full Review…
A fascinating cross-cultural experiment that eventually runs itself into the ground.
J. R. Jones
The movie offers the most psychologically complex screen portrait of a Native American character in at least twenty years, probably more. Feb 14, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
The movie offers the most psychologically complex screen portrait of a Native American character in at least twenty years, probably more.
Matt Zoller Seitz
[A] ruminative, gentle and absorbing new film. Feb 13, 2014 | Full Review…
[A] ruminative, gentle and absorbing new film.
A.O. Scott
It may not always treat psychology with the sophistication it deserves, but it at least acknowledges that it's an imperfect method of personal understanding. Mar 6, 2014 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
It may not always treat psychology with the sophistication it deserves, but it at least acknowledges that it's an imperfect method of personal understanding.
Jeff Meyers
What grounds the film is the chemistry of the main performers. Feb 26, 2014 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
What grounds the film is the chemistry of the main performers.
Tony Macklin
In warming quite a lot to Jimmy P, it's possible that I've gravitated to what Desplechin's long-term admirers might regard as the wrong film. Feb 21, 2014 | Full Review…
In warming quite a lot to Jimmy P, it's possible that I've gravitated to what Desplechin's long-term admirers might regard as the wrong film.
Jonathan Romney
The pain and sadness of Picard's life are perversely relegated to another time and place, one the film can only visit from the distance of his recollections. By the end, [Arnaud] Desplechin makes him known thoroughly, but not vividly. Feb 20, 2014 | Rating: 3.0/5 | Full Review…
The pain and sadness of Picard's life are perversely relegated to another time and place, one the film can only visit from the distance of his recollections. By the end, [Arnaud] Desplechin makes him known thoroughly, but not vividly.
Scott Tobias
The fine lead performances by Benicio del Toro and Mathieu Amalric are the highlights of the artfully crafted, fact-based drama Jimmy P., which tries (sometimes in vain) to make psychotherapy cinematically intriguing. Feb 18, 2014 | Rating: 7.7/10 | Full Review…
The fine lead performances by Benicio del Toro and Mathieu Amalric are the highlights of the artfully crafted, fact-based drama Jimmy P., which tries (sometimes in vain) to make psychotherapy cinematically intriguing.
Matt Patches
The sterile process that the film is fixated on is admirable, but Jimmy P. rarely gets at anything engrossing or interesting about its characters. Feb 16, 2014 | Rating: C+ | Full Review…
The sterile process that the film is fixated on is admirable, but Jimmy P. rarely gets at anything engrossing or interesting about its characters.
Ty Landis
Slightly mentally non-decolonized. Good Film! A worthwhile film but a little odd insofar as it under emphasizes the ethnocultural forces in the characters in favor of a "special friendship" (in a universalized way) despite the fact that it is the decultured nature of American psychiatry which was at the root of doctors' inability to help Jimmy in the first place. Also couldn't stand the way a couple of actors who think that acting means being as anxious and/or intense as possible in every scene. Jimmy P is enlightening about the psychic damage that happens when cultural and ethnic peoples are punished for who they are and made to ape other cultures to become accepted. A Native American Veteran suffering from a series of psychological issues develops a deeply powerful friendship with his progressive French psychoanalyst as they discover and attempt to understand the source of his illness.
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