Life During Wartime

Movie Ranked #597 | 2009 - Comedy, Drama
Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos.
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Best two reviews:
1) The New York Times - It is all perfectly dreadful and at times appallingly funny. Mr. Solondz winds thin tendrils of narrative around the dinner-table conversations, and allows everyone a chance to be earnestly foolish, unguardedly selfish and also, almost by accident, cruelly honest. (Rating: 90) Read Full Review >
2) Entertainment Weekly - In a staring contest with his audience, Solondz never blinks. He picks and picks at the themes that consume him, and he doesn't care who stays and who leaves. Me, I'm rapt. (Rating: 83) Read Full Review >

Worst two reviews:
10) Empire - Possibly a brave and interesting triumph for its director, but definitely a cold-eyed heartless bore for his audience. (Rating: 40) Read Full Review >
11) New York Observer - What some critics praise as astute and compelling, I find juvenile and fraught with hysteria. There's no arc here, no real pathos, and the direction is like watching snow melt on the side of a road. (Rating: 0) Read Full Review >
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