Rotten
Stewart lets it all hang out in a firecracker role but her damaged character never achieves the depth the weak material could have done with.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Overview
Years after their teenage daughter’s death, Lois and Doug Riley, an upstanding Indiana couple, are frozen by estranging grief. Doug escapes to New Orleans on a business trip. Compelled by urgencies he doesn’t understand, he insinuates himself into the life of an underage hooker, becoming her platonic guardian.
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54%
Tomatometer
Rotten
"Welcome to the Rileys" sets out to be a study of grief and how to overcome it, but it rings too false to offer much hope - or entertainment.
Connie Ogle, Miami Herald
Rotten
It's as if Tony Soprano and Bella Swan had landed the two leads in somebody's amateur theater company, and this is what the lucky audience gets.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
"Welcome to the Rileys"? Thanks, but no thanks.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
Welcome to the Rileys is a reminder that good, or at least intriguing, things can come in what seem to be predictable packages.
Cary Darling, Dallas Morning News
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