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The Leisure Seeker certainly doesn't suffer from any shortage of acting talent, but it's largely squandered on a predictable, diffuse drama with little to say.
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[The Leisure Seeker] is a predictable scenario. It can't be anything else. But these two great talents invest it with humanity and courage in the face of its inescapable home truths. Jun 13, 2018 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
[The Leisure Seeker] is a predictable scenario. It can't be anything else. But these two great talents invest it with humanity and courage in the face of its inescapable home truths.
Sandra Hall
A funny and truthful look at growing old together. Apr 20, 2018 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
A funny and truthful look at growing old together.
Eve Jones
Plenty of scope, then, for tragedy and comedy, but Paolo Virzi's film is neither profoundly sad nor uproariously funny. It just trundles along in a cocoon of modulated mediocrity, like the Spencers in their Leisure Seeker. Apr 19, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Plenty of scope, then, for tragedy and comedy, but Paolo Virzi's film is neither profoundly sad nor uproariously funny. It just trundles along in a cocoon of modulated mediocrity, like the Spencers in their Leisure Seeker.
Ed Potton
Sentimentality and morbidity sit side by side. Thankfully, Mirren and Sutherland bring enough mischief, humour and passion to their roles to ensure that the film's more toe-curling moments are quickly forgotten. Apr 19, 2018 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
Sentimentality and morbidity sit side by side. Thankfully, Mirren and Sutherland bring enough mischief, humour and passion to their roles to ensure that the film's more toe-curling moments are quickly forgotten.
Geoffrey Macnab
I found it sucrose and glib. Apr 19, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
I found it sucrose and glib.
Peter Bradshaw
Making his first American film after a 25-year career in Italy, Virzi has chosen a project whose tonal challenges would make most directors curl into a foetal ball. Even his seasoned leads wobble. Apr 18, 2018 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Making his first American film after a 25-year career in Italy, Virzi has chosen a project whose tonal challenges would make most directors curl into a foetal ball. Even his seasoned leads wobble.
Danny Leigh
Although the well-intentioned premise of aging with dignity is painfully realistic at times, other times not, the love story of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer is mismatched with mishaps of a road trip comedy. Aug 19, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
Although the well-intentioned premise of aging with dignity is painfully realistic at times, other times not, the love story of Mr. and Mrs. Spencer is mismatched with mishaps of a road trip comedy.
Brigid Presecky
Never rises above the mediocrity and predictability it so frustratingly presents to us. May 3, 2019 | Full Review…
Never rises above the mediocrity and predictability it so frustratingly presents to us.
Peter Gray
Mirren and Sutherland are a very strong duo, and they carry The Leisure Seeker through its endless strange shifts in tone... Feb 13, 2019 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
Mirren and Sutherland are a very strong duo, and they carry The Leisure Seeker through its endless strange shifts in tone...
Jack Blackwell
The film veers close to poor taste - she's cancer-stricken, he's addled with Alzheimer's - and Italian director Paolo Virzi does let scenes drift on, but the stars keep things on course to the emotional close. Jan 27, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
The film veers close to poor taste - she's cancer-stricken, he's addled with Alzheimer's - and Italian director Paolo Virzi does let scenes drift on, but the stars keep things on course to the emotional close.
Jason Best
It's a slow and bumpy film but Mirren and Sutherland are excellent; Ella and John are flawed and real, as she discovers a decades-old betrayal and he rages at her first love from 50 years ago. Jan 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/5 | Full Review…
It's a slow and bumpy film but Mirren and Sutherland are excellent; Ella and John are flawed and real, as she discovers a decades-old betrayal and he rages at her first love from 50 years ago.
Sarah Cartland
The Leisure Seeker isn't a bad film, but its sluggish pace, inexplicable changes between the film and the book, and some corny dialogue keep it from being great and distract the attention from the impressive central performances. Dec 29, 2018 | Full Review…
The Leisure Seeker isn't a bad film, but its sluggish pace, inexplicable changes between the film and the book, and some corny dialogue keep it from being great and distract the attention from the impressive central performances.
Alex Arabian
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