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Labor Day

2013

Jason Reitman

Kate Winslet, Josh Brolin, Gattlin Griffith, Tom Lipinski ...

6.0

5,186

Romance. Drama. Mystery Set in 1987 over the late summer holiday weekend, Labor Day opens with divorced, depressed single mom Adele clothes shopping with her 13-year-old son, Henry. They encounter a large, fearsome man — who also happens to be bleeding badly. He asks for a ride, and against all judgment, they give him one. As police search town for the escaped convict, the mother and son gradually learn his true story and their options become more and more limited. [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Chris Willman IndieWire	"Reitman seemed to have achieved a masterful new balance between comic asides and personal tragedy (...) but for anyone who thought emotional complexity would be a hallmark of all (his) films, that peach pie is a little hard to swallow"	NEU
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"'Labor Day' brims with such carefully observed details, all of them a little too elegant to feel entirely genuine (...) what emerges is a powerful — if implausible — romance"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Reitman keeps a strong grip on all the aspects of the story to prevent it from becoming corny, unduly melodramatic or obvious"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Robey Telegraph	"There's craft, care and sensitivity in every frame of Labor Day, so why does the movie feel so counterfeit? It's a puzzle."	NEG
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The pie looks delicious, but 'Labor Day' feels stale. (...) Rating: ★★ (out of four)"	NEU
United States	Stephen Holden The New York Times	"'Labor Day' seems designed for the crowd that devours Nicholas Sparks's romantic daydreams."	NEU
United States	Michael Phillips Chicago Tribune	"We're left with some first-rate actors doing what they can to fill every sensually fraught glance with trace elements of human character."	NEU
United States	Claudia Puig USA Today	"'Labor Day' feels like a belabored, sappy slog. (...) Rating: ★½ (out of four)"	NEG

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