Starting Out in the Evening

Intelligent, involving and conspicuously adult, Starting Out in the Evening is almost shocking in its distinctiveness, its ability to create high drama from an unlikely source.Read Full Review »

The movie is carefully modulated to draw us deeper and deeper into the situation, and uses no contrived plot devices to superimpose plot jolts on what is, after all, a story involving four civilized people who are only trying, each in a different way, to find happiness.Read Full Review »

Andrew Wagner has made a lovely comedy of death and rebirth.Read Full Review »

What is so remarkable about Mr. Langella is that he seems to hold Leonard’s intellectual cosmos inside him, to make it implicit in the man’s every gesture and pause.Read Full Review »

It's rare to see a movie adaptation in which a filmmaker has taken so much care in translating the odd little qualities that make a particular novel special, to preserve the complex and fragile threads of feeling between characters that are often much easier to grasp on the page.Read Full Review »

We are slowly and mightily drawn into this intimate story, which is both intellectually stimulating and emotionally moving.Read Full Review »

This wise, observant, and exquisitely tacit chamber piece complicates every May-December, academic-novel cliché in the book.Read Full Review »

Like most of this refreshingly subtle film, it's not what you expect, and it's not something you've seen before.Read Full Review »

A "small" movie. But in its keenly observed examination of strangers who become intimates - and of family members who remain, in part, strangers - it has big things to say.Read Full Review »

Langella delivers a master class in acting. He's playing Leonard Schiller, an aging author aching from the loss of his wife, a weak heart and literary neglect.Read Full Review »