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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Given the fact that The Architect is obviously a work in the tradition of Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams, not to mention Henrik Ibsen, it's disappointing. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Painfully portentous and more solemn than Santa's funeral, The Architect gets this year's prize for the movie most likely to spoil holiday cheer. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Despite graphic scenes of drug- and crime-infested buildings where people are forced to live behind bars like prisoners, The Architect still feels stagebound, inert when it needs to be cinematic. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: The Architect wears its heavy social consciousness like an albatross, and Tauber's plodding, earnest direction does little to wean the material away from its stage roots. Read more
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Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: ...A grim little exercise in exorcising middle-class guilt. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Too many "big" moments are happening to too many people for the movie to feel plausible, and Tauber tries to tie many of those plots together in a way that seems contrived. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Every character in The Architect is crazily stuccoed with crisis. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Despite his obvious earnestness, first-time director and cowriter Matt Tauber is ill equipped to mine emotions this complex. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: There are too many characters undergoing life changes in the story for each to be properly developed in an 82-minute movie. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: It's a compact and symmetrical picture with all its plot points in the right places, but I never found it convincing in the slightest. Read more
Ronnie Scheib, Variety: Stage-to-screen transition stumbles, however, when the concept of 'home' no longer provides an evocative offstage metaphor but, instead, becomes a thudding on-screen presence. Read more
Ella Taylor, Village Voice: The Architect is an affecting study in the private loneliness and strength of Tonya, a woman who understands her own motives only imperfectly but presses ahead anyway. Read more