New York Times is scared of death (typical rich liberal attitude) - this is a fine movie
AO Scott - a typical death-squeamish upper-middle class New Yorker, disses the movie in the worst possible snobbish way - by stating that only pretentious snobs will lke it ("acting in bulk and literary pretension at a discount"). I read Scott, and he is a typical shallow New York upper-middleclass liberal - doesn't know what he believed/s yesterday or tomorrow, but knows what today's flavor is (feel sorry for his kids). Anyway, this movie is about death, and about how the alive elderly deal with it - the vividly alive elderly. No one wants to die, especially the passionate elderly as they confront it, and this movie shows how it is confronted through the prism of a marriage. Movie cops out a bit by throwing a lot of young sex/flesh at us, but maybe it is a necessary balance to the movie's wrinkles. Plummer and Mirren are superb - the marriage they portray is alive till the end, as all great marriages are. And great Russian scenery to boot ~