The Perfect Family Reviews

Movie Reviews

• without putting too fine a point on the Catholic Church's arch stance toward gays, "The Perfect Family" makes a clear and welcome humanitarian statement

  Review rate : B- by Cole Smithey [ColeSmithey.com ]

• there are funny moments, and touching ones, too

  by Elizabeth Weitzman [New York Daily News ]

• the movie teeters on the edge of caricature, but Turner keeps it grounded and relatable

  by Robert Levin [amNewYork ]

• the film jumps all over the place, leaping from comedy to tragedy to hug-dispensing sentimentality

  by Ronnie Scheib [Variety ]

• so heavily it can seem like a fable about religious decrees versus acceptance

  Review rate : C by Alison Willmore [AV Club ]

• oscillates between Lifetime-channel melodrama, lazy barbs and facile irony

  by Ernest Hardy [Village Voice ]

• it all feels very dull and anachronistically naive

  by Diego Costa [Slant Magazine ]

• has the loud, mechanical clicketyclack of a 40-year-old episode of "All in the Family."

  by Stephen Holden [New York Times ]

• full of broad comedy moments with plucked plucky strings on the soundtrack

  by James Rocchi [MSN Movies ]

• feels like it could have been more than that, but I suppose counting its blessings is the more Christian thing to do

  by Michelle Orange [Movieline ]

• everything is too neatly black and white, when real life rarely is

  by Betsy Sharkey [Los Angeles Times ]

• despite the genuine humor that pops up in unexpected corners of almost every scene, this movie has a lot to say about misplaced faith

  by Rex Reed [New York Observer ]

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