GamerTab That was an excellent one.

Breakinger A Brilliant Conflict

Abegail Noëlle While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Kinley This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Ethan Where do I even start? The film starts off with a promising dramatic premise of Robert De Niro portraying a recently widowed husband who tries to contact his children. And then it goes downhill from there.Who wrote this trashfire of a script? The dialogue is incredibly cliche and weak, and tries to establish emotional relevance and connection with quotes about urinating on walls. The film is supposed to be about De Niro reconnecting with his children, but really it's about him reconnecting with his one son who decided to pursue art and his other children (who are also lacking in achievement, to his disappointment) hiding the fact that he was arrested and died of an overdose. How are we supposed to connect to this otherwise heartbreaking event when the son was never shown on screen, and the only flashback sequence we get is of De Niro encouraging his son to pursue art in a god-awful line about urinating on walls? When the film tries to bring it back up towards the end, as if we're expected to cry for it, it's laughable. Everybody's NOT fine because everybody's not finely written in this trashfire of a film that lacks any emotional connection with its characters and fails to establish and develop the characters that matter because it simply can't handle decent and relatable dialogue.

juneebuggy I liked this one quite a bit. Robert DeNiro is excellent and ultimately what makes this so watchable. He plays a widower who sets out to visit each of his 3 grown children only to discover that they've been hiding their problems from him. I liked the idea that he had to reconnect with his kids because his entire relationship with them had been through his wife. I have seen this scenario play out myself through a couple of friends. Its awkward and tough going.Nothing too exciting really happens here plot wise, but the story still kept my attention as 'Frank' travels around the country from NY to Chicago to Denver, to Vegas, meeting other lonely people and basically intruding on his children's lives.There is a bit of a mystery involved regarding what's in the envelopes he hand delivers to each of them and also in what has happened to his son David. I enjoyed DeNiro's scenes with Drew Barrymore a lot even if her secret did seem a bit far fetched. Kate Beckinsale, Sam Rockwell & Austin Lysy play the other kids. I also enjoyed the flashbacks, where he sees his grown children as young kids. Ultimately I felt sad for Frank.I'm not sure why this is being marketed as a Christmas movie when it has nothing to do with the season. Even the (bad) poster has a tree on it. In actuality there is only 1 short scene involving the holiday. 3/28/15

rkhen Thank God I didn't read the dreary reviews before watching this movie. For some reason, lots of people find it "depressing". (Which depresses me, since Everybody's Fine is an accurate reflection of real life. Maybe someone's in denial?) And professional critics for the most part don't find it... something... enough. But I'm a critical viewer, and I loved it. Robert DeNiro is brilliant and completely recognisable as a father of grown kids. Maybe the people who didn't like it are just too young to have been there: men of my father's generation and before, who thought their main job was to make money and hector their kids into "succeeding" during the few minutes per week they spent together. I knew this character the instant I saw him; the opening scene -- which has no dialogue -- says it all. The dad is also deeply sympathetic, which isn't easy in a movie based on his past mistakes. But I love this guy. If you knew him in real life, you will too. But what makes Everybody's Fine so powerful is that it's a mystery; clues drop subtly, around a main character who isn't as dumb, or as inflexible, as his family thinks he is. We figure out the truth along with him. The white-lying portrayed is also completely realistic; the unanswered questions kept me trying to solve the mystery.The grown kids (whom the father still tellingly calls "my children") are a bit stock, I'll give the critics that. But the performances are good; better than some reviewers have allowed. Each one is simultaneously the same and different; again, realistic. And the grandson is brilliant. Lucian Maisel manages to play it just teenaged enough to be real (and charming), without quite stepping over the line to obnoxious. He's sarcastic and outspoken, but remains inside the story. If you haven't seen this movie, stop reading the reviews. See it and make up your own mind. I'm glad I did.

tanchimc I would just like to say, its very hard to find a Hollywood movie,that is not made for the big crowds,meaning a movie without "inspired by true stories", which turn out to be almost a complete lie...without noisy and *oscar wanting* scenes,...without same old scripts,mixed with scripts from other movies...And then comes this wonderful, honest, simple but so complicated and powerful movie...The script of it is just like life, it is so everyday and so inspiring...I cried for him and i cried for them....could recognize my own family!Beautiful script and such good acting..Bravo!! This movie should have won some Oscars ;)