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Here Today

2021

Billy Crystal, Alan Zweibel

Billy Crystal, Tiffany Haddish, Penn Badgley, Laura Benanti ...

5.5

209

Comedy. Drama Veteran comedy writer Charlie Berns (Crystal), who is slowly but surely losing his grip on reality, befriends a talented young New York street singer Emma Payge (Haddish). Together, they form an unlikely yet hilarious and touching friendship that kicks the generation gap aside and redefines the meaning of love and trust.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank Scheck The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] doesn’t fully succeed in any department. But it does provide some alternately amusing and touching moments"	NEU
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"This gentle comedy has some touching moments between Crystal and Tiffany Haddish (...) but 'Here Today' ultimately proves too saccharine and manipulative"	NEU
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Movies are allowed to be more than one thing (...) but all those qualities must harmonize. 'Here Today' is a mess (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"'Here Today,' as good as some of it is, is a watchable movie with a soft center. But it makes you very glad to see Billy Crystal take center stage again."	NEU
United States	Katie Walsh Los Angeles Times	"For a film that seeks to be so humanist, there’s only one truly human character in it. As likable as he is, that oversight is impossible to ignore."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It’s hard to embrace a canned 'live in the moment and laugh as it goes by' ethos in a movie where even death becomes impossible to take seriously."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"The pairing of Crystal and Haddish kicks off with such cross-generational comic snap that 'Here Today' looks ready to provide just the laughs we need for our pandemic blues. And for a while, before a downer subplot torpedoes the ha-ha, it does"	NEU
United States	Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"'Here Today' tries hard to be warm and witty and ultimately devastating and poignant, but it remains firmly in the mushy middle of sitcom sentiment"	NEG
United States	Tara McNamara Common Sense Media	"The balance between comedy, heart, and head is excellent. It's the hand that's too heavy (...) [The creators] cram a little too much in to 'Here Today'."	NEU
United States	Mike D'Angelo AV Club	"'Here Today’s sincerity is matched only by its phoniness. The same was true of Crystal’s 1992 directorial debut, 'Mr. Saturday Night', so at least one can say he hasn’t lost a step."	NEG
United States	Matt Singer Screen Crush	"[All the sketches] sound like they written by the same person — and they’re all utterly devoid of laughs (...) [It] is too peculiar and heartfelt to be truly bad"	NEU

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