Evening

"Evening is a ponderous extended metaphor for the twilight hours before death. It might look very good, and feature a top cast, but it feels empty and often silly. Any atmosphere or emotion is hampered by nonsensical dialogue and stilted acting."

"An all-star team of filmmakers takes on a minor-league story. The cast and crew here include multiple Oscar winners and nominees, a Pulitzer Prize-winning screenwriter, and a director, a much-honored cinematographer who collaborated with a Nobel Prize-winning author no less for his first film. Alas, the thing they all choose to labor over is a thin, overwrought tale of New England bluebloods wallowing in self-perpetuated angst and recriminations. At the end of the movie, everyone decides to get over it. Wow, that's a relief..."

"There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep. "Evening" creeps through its dolorous paces as prudently as an undertaker..."

"Perfect flick for mums and daughters to bond over, just be prepared for it to take a couple of hours..."

"Despite the obviously compelling premise and the stellar cast, this film just failed to deliver on an emotional level..."

"This multi-generational chick flick may be blessed with a stellar cast but unfortunately errs on the pretentious side..."

"Even Hungarian director Lajos Koltai's beautiful autumnal hues can't lift the maudlin mood or the Mills and Boon-level love affair."

"A raft of award-winners head up the cast and crew of Evening, but this slick-loooking melodrama heaves under the weight of all those gongs. Claire Danes, Toni Collette, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, and Vanessa Redgrave (to name a few) act out Michael Cunningham's (The Hours) co-written script for acclaimed cinematographer-turned-director Lajos Koltai. But before hooking the big names, the producers should have beefed up the story..."