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Beautifully photographed, "The Dish & the Spoon" is awash in images of rain-soaked streets and gray wintry skies. Feb 9, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
Beautifully photographed, "The Dish & the Spoon" is awash in images of rain-soaked streets and gray wintry skies.
Stephen Holden
For once, an American indie's muted modesty at least makes emotional sense, suiting a bittersweet romance that, by nature, has neither a name nor a future. Feb 7, 2012 | Full Review…
For once, an American indie's muted modesty at least makes emotional sense, suiting a bittersweet romance that, by nature, has neither a name nor a future.
Eric Hynes
Bagnall successfully exploits the seriocomic disparity between the supercharged relationship offscreen and the desultory one onscreen. Apr 6, 2011 | Full Review…
Bagnall successfully exploits the seriocomic disparity between the supercharged relationship offscreen and the desultory one onscreen.
Ronnie Scheib
Gerwig handles her character's extreme mood swings with finesse. Mar 19, 2011 | Full Review…
Gerwig handles her character's extreme mood swings with finesse.
John DeFore
Director Alison Bagnall crafts a model independent film, a miniature story told with feeling and humor... Apr 10, 2012 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Director Alison Bagnall crafts a model independent film, a miniature story told with feeling and humor...
Gerald Peary
Not so much an actual movie as an assortment of Amerindie affectations, The Dish & the Spoon doesn't waste a moment on recognizable reality, consumed as it is with checking off various items from its list of clichés. Feb 7, 2012 | Rating: 1.5/4 | Full Review…
Not so much an actual movie as an assortment of Amerindie affectations, The Dish & the Spoon doesn't waste a moment on recognizable reality, consumed as it is with checking off various items from its list of clichés.
Nick Schager
Less dish than dishrag, Greta's broken woman does a stunning, kind of Albert Nobbs role reversal stud predator in drag. But this road movie detour into destination cautionary cougar romance, is not nearly as daring as its whimsical if troubled humans. Jan 31, 2012 | Full Review…
Less dish than dishrag, Greta's broken woman does a stunning, kind of Albert Nobbs role reversal stud predator in drag. But this road movie detour into destination cautionary cougar romance, is not nearly as daring as its whimsical if troubled humans.
Prairie Miller
The Dish and Spoon poses the possibility that, from a different proximity, the MPG is a volatile beast and far more than the promise of your fantasies can actually tolerate. Jan 30, 2012 | Rating: 4/5
The Dish and Spoon poses the possibility that, from a different proximity, the MPG is a volatile beast and far more than the promise of your fantasies can actually tolerate.
Sara Maria Vizcarrondo
The film might be described as a notion that never quite grows up to be an idea, bookended by more or less scripted scenes that wouldn't have been out of place in a Goldie Hawn movie. Nov 17, 2011 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The film might be described as a notion that never quite grows up to be an idea, bookended by more or less scripted scenes that wouldn't have been out of place in a Goldie Hawn movie.
John Beifuss
With its deliberately quirky characters and meandering series of events, this mumblecore movie is enjoyably ramshackle, constantly catching us off guard with spiky humour or warm emotion. Oct 27, 2011 | Rating: 2.5/5 | Full Review…
With its deliberately quirky characters and meandering series of events, this mumblecore movie is enjoyably ramshackle, constantly catching us off guard with spiky humour or warm emotion.
Rich Cline
Too good-natured to hate but familiar enough to be instantly forgettable, The Dish and the Spoon is one for mumblecompletists only. Oct 17, 2011 | Full Review…
Too good-natured to hate but familiar enough to be instantly forgettable, The Dish and the Spoon is one for mumblecompletists only.
Charlie Lyne
Quickly dissolves into an alternately spastic and drowsy mulch of Sundance-y clichés. May 13, 2011 | Full Review…
Quickly dissolves into an alternately spastic and drowsy mulch of Sundance-y clichés.
Fernando F. Croce
Driving off crying and apparently in her pajamas to boot, Rose(Greta Gerwig) is too upset to have remembered her wallet, leaving her just enough money for the breakfast of champions, donuts and beer. She would prefer enjoying this delicious meal in the privacy of a lighthouse but discovers a young englishman(Olly Alexander) sleeping there. Concerned for his welfare, she offers to drive him to a hospital but he waves her off. Instead they go to the brewery where until very recently the woman who had an affair with Rose's husband worked. As long as they are there, they have a beer or ten, while playing hangman and Rose discloses her plans. To be honest, "The Dish and the Spoon" does not have much in the way of a story, just people living in the past which applies to not just Rose, a mentally unstable woman, just as it is occasionally good to get away to gain some perspective. At the same time, neither of the lead characters seemed to have existed before the movie started. Otherwise, it is up to the Delaware Tourism Board and the two talented lead actors to produce anything of substance and just as importantly to prevent the movie from going over the ledge into cringeworthy territory.
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