About Schmidt

This powerfully contained, painfully funny performance has to rank with the greatest work Nicholson's ever done -- This road movie gives you emotional whiplash, and you’ll be glad you went along for the ride.Read Full Review »

It is also Nicholson at his bravest and riskiest. By banking his fires and staying alert to the smallest details, he delivers a monumental performance that blasts your expectations and batters your heart.Read Full Review »

What gives About Schmidt its ultimate boost, what pushes it into the stirring heavens is Nicholson, who produces the most understated -– and one of the most powerful –- performances of his career.Read Full Review »

Payne is a comic miniaturist, who works in a small compass, as if through a magnifying glass with tweezers.Read Full Review »

A comedy poised on the knife's edge of tragedy, the film is a gutsy, truthful, deeply rooted vision of contemporary American life, scaled to the size of an ordinary man. It's a humanist triumph strip-mined of bathos and confirmation that, after directing just three features, Payne has become the most gifted comic social satirist to hit our movies since Preston Sturges.Read Full Review »

What makes this exquisitely observed slice of American screen realism transcend itself is finally its moral sensibility.Read Full Review »

A quiet, heart-rending masterpiece, one with an actor's turn that people will remember, and rediscover, eons into the future.Read Full Review »

Sublime and sorrowful movie.Read Full Review »

The power of this great movie -- part comedy, part tragedy, part satire, mostly masterpiece -- is in the details.Read Full Review »

Nicholson has at least three magnificent moments in Hour 2. The best is a wedding toast that comes after another that will painfully remind you of every banal wedding toast you've ever heard.Read Full Review »