Rotten
Likable performers and novel storyline notwithstanding, the comic drama stumbles, leaving audiences with unsatisfying answers to its magic-tinged mystery.
Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
Overview
After his mother's death, Chan Kai-yuk feels so alone that he leaves Guangzhou for Hong Kong to look up the father who abandoned him and his mom. But Yuk's hopes are dashed on finding his dad has a new family and considers him a burden. Alone and homeless, Yuk is taken in by Auntie Fen, a middle-aged recluse who leads a solitary existence. At first, their different habits and personalities lead to numerous squabbles, intensified by Yuk's self-centeredness and Fen's odd temperament. As time goes on, Yuk learns Fen is in the early stages of Alzheimer's. The discovery unexpectedly serves as a catalyst for the young man's growth as a caring friend. For the first time in her life, Fen feels truly blessed. But it is a situation rife with irony due to the nature of her disease and the accelerating elusiveness of feelings and memories.
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Rotten
The irony is that as Gallner's performance gets stronger, the film around him grows weaker.
Matt Fagerholm, RogerEbert.com
Rotten
The strands converge at the end, as you knew they would, but Mr. Thompson's insights never rise beyond the level of gauzy group therapy.
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times
Rotten
Bad movies are a dime a dozen, but the truly pitiable ones are few and far between. Oliver Thompson's debut is spellbindingly awful, but most of it is touched with a guilelessness that makes it difficult to hate.
David Ehrlich, indieWIRE
Rotten
Ultimately cloying and unfocused ...
Robyn Bahr, Village Voice
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