If you require that you "like" a movie, then Rick is not for you, because there is nothing likable about it. It's rotten to the core and right down to the end. But if you find that such extremes can be fascinating, then the movie may cheer you, not because it is happy, but because it goes for broke.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Stephen Holden
The belated sentimentality of the movie is as thudding as its fire-and-brimstone moralism; they're really two sides of the same counterfeit coin.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
Feels like it was written by an oddball artist-temp type with an ax to grind - which, as it happens, it was.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Jorge Morales
Rick (Bill Pullman) is an embittered cad who fails to earn the audience's sympathy, so the film falls short of its source's tragic dimensions. That aside, Daniel Handler's script and Curtiss Clayton's direction hit all the right notes, especially in the final act.Read Full Review »