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The Royal Tenenbaums

2001

Wes Anderson

Gene Hackman, Anjelica Huston, Ben Stiller, Luke Wilson ...

6.9

30,526

Comedy. Drama In their youth, the Tenenbaums--an eccentric New York family--were extraordinary. They were all geniuses. Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) was a successful litigator. His wife Etheline (Angelica Huston) raised their children to be ambitious, entrepreneurial, and creative--then published an acclaimed book about her child-rearing techniques. Adopted daughter Margot (Gwyneth Paltrow) was a gifted playwright. Son Chas (Ben Stiller) was a ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"Anderson offers no phony uplift for the Tenenbaums or for audiences. But he does know how to take a sad song and make it better. In these troubled times, that's a gift"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"You'll laugh, you'll cry -- the year's best movie"	POS
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"As richly conceived as the novel it pretends to be and full of distinctive characters and scenes (...) [it traps] an expansive, probing story in a brittle, highly artificial style that constricts character and emotional development"	NEU
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"A deliciously absurdist comedy that should garner critical acclaim"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"One of the pleasures of the movie is the way it keeps us a little uncertain about how we should be reacting (...) Profoundly silly, and loving (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly	"[Anderson's] style is so fresh, so happily idiosyncratic, and so all-encompassing that it stirs up strong response (...) [It] is intricate, fine-stitched, embroidered with sumptuous details"	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Every single character in 'The Royal Tenenbaums' is drawn with terrific wit and intelligence, and I grinned my way through it."	POS
United States	Nathan Rabin AV Club	"One of the year's warmest, funniest films."	POS

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