Must Go! Sharply written and transparently honest. by Nacho Baggo When the same person writes, produces,and directs, it is a good one! This is more than true with the DESCENDANTS. Heart wrenching and playful scenes played out with enjoyable characters and a...
Must Go! Amazing film on family dynamics, love, & forgiveness by george_gordon Best movie I've seen in a long time. Story and characters are so natural and nuanced and complex, struggling for dignity, flawed, utterly believable. Casting is brilliant across the board. Clooney as...
Go Clooney's Most Likeable by PECurls Matt King is George Clooney's most likeable character yet. He is a father and husband having to come to grips with a life- altering tragic event and he (and we) don't know if he's up to the challenge....
100 Wall Street Journal | Joe Morgenstern Rarely has a contemporary movie taken in so much life and revealed it with such depth of feeling. Read full review
100 Philadelphia Inquirer | Steven Rea Clooney has never been better, subtler, more deeply rooted in a performance than he is in The Descendants. And he's funny, too. Read full review
100 The Hollywood Reporter | Todd McCarthy After a five-year wait since "Sideways," Alexander Payne has made his best film yet with The Descendants. Ostensibly a study of loss and coping with a tragic situation, this wonderfully nuanced look at a father and two daughters dealing with the imminent death of his wife and their mother turns the miraculous trick of possibly being even funnier than it is moving. Read full review
100 Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman Another beautifully chiseled piece of filmmaking - sharp, funny, generous, and moving. Read full review