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The Soloist

2009

Joe Wright

Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey Jr., Catherine Keener, Stephen Root ...

6.0

5,620

Drama A schizophrenic, homeless musician from Skid Row, Los Angeles dreams of playing at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Columnist Steve Lopez (Robert Downey Jr.) is at a dead end. The newspaper business is in an uproar, his marriage to a fellow journalist has fallen apart and he can't entirely remember what he loved about his job in the first place. Then, one day, while walking through Los Angeles' Skid Row, he sees the mysterious bedraggled ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The Soloist has all the elements of an uplifting drama, except for the uplift. The story is compelling, the actors are in place, but I was never sure what the filmmakers wanted me to feel about it. (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"The film is imperfect, periodically if unsurprisingly sentimental, overly tidy and often very moving."	NEU
United Kingdom	Dan Jolin Empire	"Intelligent and uncompromising, with knock-out performances from Downey Jr. and Foxx. (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	Ty Burr Boston Globe	"Isn't so much a story of perseverance and musical triumph as it is of despair, acceptance, and social commitment. The movie's a call to arms: We are our brothers' keepers, it says"	POS
United States	Lou Lumenick New York Post	"Like the prototypical 'Shine,' this is a film that romanticizes mental illness (...) This movie’s heart is in the right place, but its mind is often somewhere else"	NEU

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