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Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: There is a sense that everyone, this treasure trove of talent included, is waiting for something to happen, some bit of alchemy that will make the story coalesce into a whole and take it beyond the jokes about Viagra, hookers and regrets. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: It's like watching your grandfather get naked on YouTube. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Most of the modest pleasures are in the ways the men expertly play off one another and invest their shallow characters with more depth than any filmmaker could reasonably expect. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: Fisher Stevens directed from Noah Haidle's script, which is obviously the work of a young writer. Read more
Scott Bowles, USA Today: It's been a long time since a movie wasted as much talent as Stand Up Guys, a film that aims to be a geezer Goodfellas but whose execution is a misfire. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Makes its way under your skin thanks to its three lead actors, all of whom have a way of bringing a uniquely weirdly spin to their not-so-tough-guy lines. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: In the end Stevens, probably wisely, just gets out of the way and lets the old guys have a ball. Read more
Drew Hunt, Chicago Reader: Thematic inconsistencies abound as Stevens aims for a tone somewhere between Grumpy Old Men, The Hangover, and Goodfellas. Read more
Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Arkin in particular can barely hide his lack of enthusiasm for the material. Some of the looks he shoots his co-stars appear to contain a secret code of some kind, deciphered as: 'Well, at least I'm in 'Argo.'" Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: Is it fun? Sure, some of the time. Is it good? That's a stretch. Does it tap the potential of these three actors? Fuggedaboutit. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Stand Up Guys reminds you that these three are still way too good to collapse into shticky self-parody, even when they're in a movie that's practically begging them to. Read more
Jordan Hoffman, Film.com: It's a pity because there's a good movie in "Stand Up Guys" somewhere. Read more
Duane Byrge, Hollywood Reporter: Standout performances from Pacino, Walken and Arkin as old-timers prove that losing a step can't keep you off your feet. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: There's enough humor and tenderness in Fisher Stevens' film to make it a passably enjoyable experience for the most part. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Despite some predictable predicaments - and the inevitable Viagra joke - the film is clever in the way it deals with the high cost of mob connections and the even higher cost of old age. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: An excruciating and melodramatic comedy. Read more
Rafer Guzman, Newsday: "Stand Up Guys" is mostly a string of low-key, almost-amusing chats over breakfast tables and pool tables, as if just watching these actors exhale should be entertaining enough. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Really, what do the actors have to work with here? The movie isn't funny enough to allow them to burlesque their images, or serious enough to give them a way to reflect upon them ... Read more
Scott Tobias, NPR: Actor-turned-director Fisher Stevens gravely misjudges the tone - when he isn't trying to get too cute about everything, he slathers his characters in unearned sentimentality. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Pacino - embracing painful Viagra jokes with abrasive, motor-mouthed energy - either needs better gigs or stronger guidance. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: Painful, misshapen and a little gross. It's an enlarged prostate of a movie. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: Elegiac and corny and not really convincing on any level ... Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Sometimes it's all about the casting. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: Some actors don't need top-shelf material. Just the pleasure of their company is enough. And so Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin turn the insubstantial Stand Up Guys into solid entertainment. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: If you don't think Al Pacino still has it in him, this is a welcome chance to be proved wrong. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: I can't argue that performers the stature of Pacino, Walken and Arkin don't deserve better material, yet it's so nice to have them onscreen together I'm in no mood to quibble. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: For a worthier project, we'd gladly contribute to these legends' retirement funds, but a shaky scam like "Stand Up Guys" isn't even worth the price of an early bird special. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It's just fun to watch Pacino, Walken and Arkin work together, very much enjoying the shared experience. Seeing Stand Up Guys is an offer you could easily refuse, but hey, why fight it? Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: This moronically unfunny gangster comedy fluctuates wildly between the lowest-of-low humor and pity-the-aged-man pathos, and offers further evidence that the best days are behind its iconic cast members. Read more
Rob Nelson, Variety: Veering between buddy movie and action-thriller, Stand Up Guys is a mildly raunchy, modestly entertaining geriatric comedy. Read more
Alissa Simon, Variety: A mildly raunchy, modestly entertaining geriatric comedy starring Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin as retired gangsters who reunite for one last night on the town. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: It plays out like you would fear. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: The degree to which "Stand Up Guys" succeeds at all is completely dependent on Walken, who elevates everything around him by seemingly doing nothing at all. Read more