FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Asad Almond A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

buddhist-06426 This movie exudes intelligent dialogue and thought. Every time I watch this movie I start contemplating how I have lived my life (currently 75). I definitely lived like Wally but now wished I had been Andre. It has made me realize that thinking outside the box is necessary to fully enjoy one's being alive.

Eric Stevenson I honestly think that this is the most realistic movie I have ever seen in my entire life. I understand how a lot of people want movies to be realistic and this fits the bill perfectly. I do like it when a lot of movies try to be elaborate and have a lot going on. I still appreciate how a film or any work just plain cuts the bullcrap and presents everything the exact way it's supposed to be. It makes me realize that Wallace Shawn is in three of the best movies I've ever seen in my entire life! Even better, he briefly mentions something being "inconceivable", an interesting line that would become more relevant in his later movie "The Princess Bride". I know it was just a voice, but he was in the "Toy Story" movies.This movie tells the story of two guys who eat in a restaurant and talk. That is all the plot this movie has, seriously. It doesn't matter, because this film just comes off as so real to me. It's just nothing but two guys talking. It may be the best representation of a slice of life story I've ever seen in my whole life. It's even hard for me to even talk about this movie. For me to even mention it, I would probably say the exact same things said in this movie. The film itself even seems like a lengthy movie review itself at times, as they talk about stories and plots.The best conversation is probably when they're talking about the fortune cookies. They talk about what the true value of omens and philosophy in general. Every single person on Earth knows what it's like to eat dinner with someone. This is exactly how it goes out. Only about eleven minutes (or ten percent of the film) takes place outside them talking. I will admit that most people generally don't take that long to eat. Then again, I know talkative people. Please see one of the most sincere movies ever made! ****

Robert Brogan My Dinner with Andre is one of those films you may well hear about, because it is really pretty different. This is the kind of film where you have to have (or have had) a lot of existential curiosity to be able to enjoy it. The less you think you know about this world, the more interesting you will find Andre's tales to be. Beyond that, you may still find it interesting if you can relate to the quest for meaning and happiness and you think of yourself as a student of human interactions. On the other hand, if you have low tolerance for weirdness and fancy, then you are likely to find yourself to be irritated by it all. There is a question of how high to rate it as a film since it seems to be just a recorded conversation. I rate it down just a bit on that account (seems unfair to other films), though I find there are some subtleties to be picked up on, and I found Wallace Shawn to give a pretty good performance with his sincere and mildly intense reactions to Andre (and at one point finds something to be INCONCEIVABLE!). Recommended to artist- and entrepreneurial types that find themselves often wondering over the edge of the World of Appearances.

Charlie Ralph I am a very big fan of very talky movies, to the extent where I believe that the phrase "show don't tell" is the worst thing that's ever happened to cinema. Take the first fifty minutes of this movie for example, where Andre is recounting his experiences. If we were to employ the "show don't tell" rule to this section of the movie, we would follow Andre from experience to experience as he tells of his hedonistic voyages that all roughly outline the point of his argument, and at least in my eyes it would be very boring. Without dialogue and expression to provide context, what we're left with is simply attractive or unattractive images. While it's possible to derive meaning from these images inferred from visual metaphors, these are almost always employed after the fact by audiences searching for meaning where there is none. While I don't want this review to stumble into the area of hatred, suffice to say the one connecting factor of all my least-favourite directors is the priority they place in storytelling by showing and not telling.So I believe with that off my chest I can talk about My Dinner With Andre more specifically, beyond the reach of it being a film full of dialogue and me loving the correct usage of dialogue in films. The pace of this movie is something to be admired in the sense that it has a gradual incline throughout. Unshackled from the need to provide plot beats or a three-act structure, the film is free to travel as it wants, and due to the conversation (as most intimate conversations do) becoming more and more personal, the pace of the film naturally slowly speeds up and becomes more enjoyable throughout as the conversation becomes less trivial and more insightful. By the end of the movie I was thoroughly enraptured because what the two characters were saying genuinely felt like it meant something to me. This may have been due to the characters in the movie reflecting mine (Wallace) and my father's (Andre) views on consumerism and spirituality, but I also think it speaks to the quality of the film's insights.But beyond what the characters say, which is the most attractive aspect of the movie, there is also something to admire in the world around the characters. While we are being sucked into this discussion just as the two people involved in it are, we forget that the world is moving around them (ironically a topic of discussion in the movie itself). I felt the natural passing of time in the movie just as it was in real life, which is a strange thing to say unless you too have seen the movie and understand what I mean. It's a rare feat, and one that is common in many of my favourite films (Before Sunrise in particular). By the time the final scene started and the beautiful song 'Gymnopedie No. 1' started, I felt like I had been naturally transported into the film itself and I had been through the exact same experience as the characters. Again, it's such an odd thing to see written down that I feel like you can only understand what I mean if you sit down, focus and spend 110 minutes watching these two people talking.And I think that's my point. The reason that I'm giving this movie five stars is that it's an experience unlike any other. When people say that about certain movies (and again, I won't go into detail) it has a tendency to frustrate and annoy me. Indeed, in my most recent review of Rachel Getting Married, my favourite film of all-time, I said that I refuse to speak of a film as if it's an experience that goes beyond simply sitting down and watching a movie. Well this is my exception that proves the rule, as My Dinner With Andre has an almost unsettling ability to cause even the most brutally non-spiritual to wax transcendent.