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The Art of Racing in the Rain

2019

Simon Curtis

Milo Ventimiglia, Amanda Seyfried, Kevin Costner, Kathy Baker ...

6.4

1,760

Comedy. Drama A dog named Enzo recalls the life lessons he has learned from his race car driving owner, Denny.

	Author	Review
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"This movie’s entire raison d’être is to make you cry, and in that respect, novelist Garth Stein piled on nearly every ploy (...) There aren’t a lot of surprises in 'The Art of Racing in the Rain'."	NEU
United States	Caryn James The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] is watchable but flat, with only occasional flashes of wit and feeling (...) The plot takes several turns into melodrama, but it’s effectively done melodrama"	NEU
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"A film aimed with lethal efficiency at your tear ducts like Chuck Norris putting his boot into your kidneys (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Stephanie Zacharek Time	"It could all be so winsome and adorable–but it isn’t (...) [The big problem] is that it’s nearly impossible to care about any of the humans."	NEG
United States	Caroline Siede AV Club	"[It] will play well for those who consider their pets to be full-fledged family members, but otherwise this dog’s journey lacks a purpose or any sense of artistry."	NEU
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"'Rain' is not a bad movie, really, and it doesn’t sell itself as anything other than earnest, floppy-eared family entertainment. But there’s a gooey out-of-time feeling to the whole thing"	NEU
United States	Nell Minow rogerebert.com	"I have eaten stacks of pancakes that were less syrupy than 'The Art of Racing in the Rain' (...) Anyone who cherishes a dog will be drawn into this story (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"The movie’s life lessons can be hard to take. Luckily, Ventimiglia (...) brings sincerity and welcome humor to Denny (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Ed Potton The Times	"It really shouldn’t work. Yet somehow it steers a course between corniness and barminess. By the end I was crying like a baby (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tim Grierson Screendaily	"Curtis starts to pile on the melodramatic plot twists, robbing the narrative of emotional honesty. Some heartfelt performances and an adorable dog aren’t quite enough to combat the sentimentality and contrivances that follow."	NEG
United Kingdom	Ian Freer Empire	"[It] relies too heavily on the charms of its golden retriever. It might be built on the notion that dogs are the wisest of us all, but the end result winds up stupid (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Canada	Sandy Schaefer Screen Rant	"[It] is whimsical and manipulative in equal measure (...) Too often feels like a book that's been turned into a movie (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
Canada	Andrew Parker The Gate	"I rarely thought I was watching a masterpiece (...) but I can say that I felt some heartstrings being plucked, some sympathies forming for the characters, and sometimes I was even intellectually engaged (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Clarisse Loughrey The Independent	"It all quickly starts to feel like a conveyor belt of emotional manipulations (...) Even the racing scenes lack any sense of thrill or adrenaline (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Paddy Kehoe RTÉ	"[It] is not Sergei Eisenstein or Jean Cocteau, but it serves its purpose as a meat-and-two-veg family story which does what it says on the tin with real expertise (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Deirdre Molumby entertainment.ie	"'The Art of Racing in the Rain' is broad enough to appeal to all members of the family. However, its lack of originality leaves a sense of dissatisfaction (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 5)"	NEU
Ireland	Graham Scannain	"[It] is a story we've seen before but with enough important twists and turns on the track to impress (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Ireland	Paul Whitington Irish Independent	"A strange and morbid film (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEG
Ireland	Tara Brady Irish Times	"It’s so ramshackle you half expect the film to slide off the screen. But you couldn’t say it was dull (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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