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24 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanBoundaries, to be sure, delivers you to a place you know you’re going, but there should always be room for a movie that does that this well.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattEntertainment WeeklyLeah GreenblattIt all bumps along, as road trips do, through silliness and boredom and occasional, unexpected charm. But Feste’s story never really gets the rhythms right, and Boundaries finally reaches the end of the road, feeling like nothing so much as a missed opportunity.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe dialogue and performances are far more interesting than the lazy, cliche-ridden story Feste cooked up.
- 50Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeste...has been known to elicit strong performances even from thuddingly obvious, maudlin material. But her attempts to establish an atmosphere of drab, low-key realism — evident in the dim lighting, wobbly framing and Laura’s penchant for rumpled plaid shirts — can scarcely conceal the essential phoniness of the material.
- 43TheWrapRobert AbeleTheWrapRobert AbeleSo much of Boundaries coasts on hackneyed complications and characters’ self-defeating actions that one wonders why we should believe anything anybody says.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA fantastic cast doing fine work can't make this feel-good hokum believable.
- 40The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSelf-satisfied and too slick by half, Boundaries projects a sheen of artifice that deflects any genuine engagement with the story.
- 38Slant MagazineKeith WatsonSlant MagazineKeith WatsonChristopher Plummer brings a twinkly eyed insouciance to his character, but there's only so many times Jack can make a joke about, say, his adult diapers before it becomes thin and hollow.
- 33The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerThe A.V. ClubJesse HassengerIt’s supposed to be evocative, but in many scenes the characters just look dim and overly backlit, to the point of obscuring the actors’ expressiveness. There might be another metaphor in there somewhere.