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25 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael Phillips"Relief" is the word for it. It's a relief to see Robert De Niro giving an honest, effective starring performance in a project that does not stink and that, in fact, rises to a respectable level of filmmaking proficiency. How long has it been?
- 70Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesChicago ReaderJ.R. JonesThis is sentimental but dramatically solid, its placid themes fortified by De Niro.
- 63St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSt. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsWhat's finest about Everybody's Fine is to watch a good fella groping hopefully toward old age.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAll that could redeem this thoroughly foreseeable unfolding would be colorful characters and good acting. Everybody's Fine comes close, but not close enough.
- 60VarietyVarietyThough a bit too artful to merit the pejorative "tearjerker" label, the film is rigorously streamlined to deliver a good emotional uppercut by the end, and purely on the strength of its craft, it connects.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceRobert De Niro's only good at playing a dad in movies starring Ben Stiller? It's all so much raging bull.
- 30Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenEverybody’s Fine – a movie about the lies grown children tell their parents – is, ironically, one of the most disingenuous movies to come out of Hollywood in a while.
- 25Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumCalculatedly soppy, seasonally phony Americanized remake of Giuseppe Tornatore's 1990 "Stanno Tutti Bene."
- 20The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttA cloyingly sentimental story that rings false in every moment.
- 20Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichEven supremely talented actors like Melissa Leo (as a confidently sexy trucker) and Brendan Sexton III (as a train-station beggar) are stifled by all the pseudo-redemptive mush.