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19 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMy Old Lady is pretty compelling viewing, mostly thanks to Kline, who gives a career-high performance here.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeKline remains a pleasure to watch, surviving the character's deepening self-pity and making his suspiciously unwriterly carelessness with words (he refers to the trophy head of a wild boar as a "cow") almost charming.
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThe venerable acting firm of Smith-Kline & Scott Thomas make certain that this Paris trip is anything but a waste.
- 60The DissolveJen ChaneyThe DissolveJen ChaneyMy Old Lady isn’t the tart slice of dessert that its initial scenes suggest it might be. In fact, it only becomes truly compelling in its second half, as Horovitz drives toward darker material and farther away from the light.
- 60The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenAs the truth tumbles out, the dialogue and the carefully timed revelations make My Old Lady seem increasingly stagy. But the performances go a long way toward camouflaging the screenplay’s clunky mechanics.
- 50VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerIts translation from stage to screen looks to have been a bit rocky, and the film never manages to transcend its actors-workshop aura and develop into something deeper.
- 50The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthThough Horovitz's directing is workmanlike solid, and while the movie has a certain charm that makes it easy to walk in the door, it gives you little reason to stay.
- 40Village VoiceAbby GarnettVillage VoiceAbby GarnettIt sounds like a recipe for comedy (and Kline seems to think so too, waltzing and prat-falling through Mathias's alcoholic foibles), but Horovitz's screenplay guns instead for an emotionally and financially tangled melodrama, and ends up feeling aggravatingly inconsistent.
- 40Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAwkwardly balanced between comedy and significance, with plotting that gets increasingly schematic and unconvincing, My Old Lady is bound and determined to get more serious than it is capable of sustaining.
- 38Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSlant MagazineElise NakhnikianIsrael Horovitz's film is basically a three-character play without a single character you can believe in.