Fresh
Faux documentary, home movie or unexpurgated family therapy? The Talent Given Us, a funny, surprising ride with a mercurial New York clan, is all three.
Damon Smith, Time Out New York
Overview
A retired New York City couple drive across country to reconnect with their reclusive son, joined by their two unmarried daughters.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
59%
Tomatometer
Fresh
[A] one-of-a-kind movie that sends the family road-trip genre happily spinning into these self-obsessed, overanalytical times; it's National Lampoon's Vacation as re-imagined by Dr. Phil.
Christopher Kelly, Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
Fresh
The notion that there is no escape from one's family is elevated-and ameliorated-by the inkling that the Wagners' story is, in fact, real.
Shauna Lyon, New Yorker
Rotten
Ultimately, the movie isn't as strong as the idea behind the movie, or the people inside that idea.
Tom Long, Detroit News
Fresh
What initially seems hard to watch, even excruciating at times, becomes hard not to, a fascinating fiction that seems to be more real than just about any actual documentary you can imagine.
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press
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