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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: As bland and soft as a nice bowl of oatmeal. Read more
Glenn Kenny, MSN Movies: While it's not entirely lacking in sharp dialogue, Kasdan's movie is weirdly unwieldy and... a bit blinkered. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: How much more fulfilling it would have been to spend those hundred-odd minutes chasing a squirrel, taking a nap or disemboweling a stuffed animal on the living room rug. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It has the shapeless spread of nonfiction, of a home movie with a hint of that newfangled mumblecore thing the kids these days are into. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: You wonder why this fine cast - which has nine Oscar nominations (with four wins) among them - would bother with something so featherweight... Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: Even as someone who enjoys the company of a dog, it didn't take long for me to wish the whole bunch of them would shut up, give up and go home. Get a bird or something. Read more
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: It ... feels utterly neutered, a film with little on the line and a talented cast begging for a little wit and a few jokes. The characters are introduced awkwardly and a strange insertion of an animated dream sequence is entirely out of place. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's far from a great movie - an overwritten, underplotted vanity project that's a distant echo of what director Lawrence Kasdan could do in his prime. But it has Diane Keaton, and that's enough. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Initially this struck me as something you'd take your grandmother to see, but by the end it seemed more like something your grandmother would take her grandmother to see. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Between the gypsy psychic and the distracting characters, "Darling Companion" loses its way. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Lawrence Kasdan's comedy strikes a note of rib-nudging blah coyness that feels very 1987. Read more
Michael Rechtshaffen, Hollywood Reporter: Lawrence Kasdan's pleasant dramedy boasts a prized ensemble but lacks bite. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Like Freeway, the lovable stray dog at the center of this very teary comedy, "Darling Companion"has lost its way. Read more
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: The movie takes a simple if shattering occurrence and uses it as a way to bring a family together, an old trick but one well played by director Lawrence Kasdan and his wife and screenwriting partner Meg. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: It feels like a film that got stuck at the pitch stage, and never quite got turned into a real screenplay. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: The folksy shenanigans are well-intentioned but frankly interminable, with Kline's wry efficiency the best relief from all the yowling and whining. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: "Darling Companion'' doesn't amount to much more than a fairly painless way for the AARP set to spend an hour and a half watching a movie with stars their own age. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: When all is said and done, the dog is the only thing you care about in Darling Companion. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: It's fun to watch Keaton and Kline together, bickering and (of course) bonding all over again. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It is depressing to reflect on the wealth of talent that conspired to make this inert and listless movie. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Kasdan was one of the hottest guys in the business for at least a decade. Today, although he's younger than Steven Spielberg or Martin Scorsese ... Kasdan looks like a flailing, irrelevant has-been. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: If good intentions were everything, this benevolent film would be Best in Show. Alas, it's flawed by a drowsy pace (there is far too much hiking) and superfluous, ill-conceived characters. Read more
Calvin Wilson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: [It] has a fine cast, but doesn't seem to have much to say other than lamenting the unfairness of getting old. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: The film sputters and stalls and winds up behaving like the worst sort of oldster - passing gas and pretending to be deep. Read more
Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Darling Companion is a "Pretty White People with Problems" movie, but like the dog at its center, it cozies its way into your lap and stares at you adoringly until you resist its flaws and find yourself won over. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Kasdan's film reveals itself as a pooch-whisperer gloss on The Big Chill... Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: It's the story that strains credulity, a navel gazer about whether a search for a lost dog can bring an uninvolved family back together as they face life in their 60s. Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: Joseph's cynicism and wit are communicated with the spot-on casting of Kline, and Keaton ably conveys Beth's suppressed loneliness as well as her big heart. Read more
Lael Loewenstein, Variety: Despite an intriguing premise, a marquee middle-aged cast and a veteran helmer (Lawrence Kasdan) schooled in character-driven ensemble movies, the result is more shaggy-dog story than incisive reflection on human relationships. Read more
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: The handsome pooch is ... the only appealing aspect of the latest tale of privileged boomer pulse-taking from Lawrence Kasdan, who co-wrote the script with his wife, Meg... Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Lawrence Kasdan's fitfully amusing comedy-drama starring Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline. Read more