Diminished Capacity 2008

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: A slog through determined wackiness, it's apt to leave audiences cold. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Striving for low-key character comedy, Diminished Capacity ends up diminishing its returns. Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Sherwood Kiraly's slight script only makes this embarrassment of riches seem more embarrassing. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Didn't we invent film festivals so we could sequester all the star-studded 'how I spent my summer vacation' indie film projects and keep them out of our arthouses? Read more

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Kyle Smith, New York Post: Alda's Hawkeye Pierce charm gives way to something snappish and cagey, while Broderick's fussy stiffness is perfect. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Diminished Capacity is blessed with a blue-ribbon cast. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: A mild pleasure from one end to the other, but not much more. Read more

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David Fear, Time Out: Great, just what we needed: another rote exercise in indie-feely humanism. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: It has moments of sweetness, but not enough poignancy or wit to turn it into the endearing art-house comedy that it aspires to be. Read more

John Anderson, Variety: A pleasant enough diversion, but DC will be bettered watched from the horizontal position of a couch, one to which the film seems all too eager to send you. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: It's the kind of lite movie you go and see with your mom, and she'll say she liked it -- but then a year later, you're both trying to remember what it was even about. Read more