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Connie Ogle, Miami Herald: Manipulative at times, but it resonates with gleaming ferocity as it unspools a story of regret, longing and resolution in two generations of women. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Though the filmmaking is uneven, Evening redeems itself in its marvelous cast, which echoes the movies' themes by showcasing two real-life mother-daughter acting duos. Read more
Jessica Reaves, Chicago Tribune: If you've not read Susan Minot's 1998 bestseller Evening, you will be happily oblivious to the movie's glaring departures and free to settle into this languid, gorgeously shot film, which bears only a passing resemblance to the novel. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: It works on paper, but [author Susan] Minot, who shares credit for the adaptation with fellow novelist Michael Cunningham, doesn't understand that screenwriting is the art of taking away. Read more
Chicago Reader: It took me a while to warm to these people and their self-consciously idyllic settings -- as well as to the slick direction of former cinematographer Lajos Koltai -- but I was eventually won over. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: If nothing else, Evening proves that there are such things as mistakes, by featuring two hours of bad choices and half-executed ideas. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: A collection of Lifetime-channel cliches arranged with the metallic precision of a machine. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: Not even a firm approach can rescue Evening from the enveloping thematic finery. It's a hopelessly classy piece of china. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Evening, despite its fine source material and roster of formidable talent, lurches clumsily across two very long, disconnected hours, reducing Minot's, sprawling, ethereal story to a pop psych nugget about embracing life as it comes. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: Everything about Evening seems engineered to liquefy moviegoers, specifically middle-age female moviegoers who miss their mothers. This would include me: I was a sloppy mess by the end. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: A dreary mood romance that flashes back and forth between present day and 50 years ago. Read more
Adam Graham, Detroit News: It courts its audience with a warm story about lost loves and paths not chosen, and it boasts an array of strong performances from its top-notch ensemble. Read more
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Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: As the cautionary tale of mothers and daughters it negligently aspires to be, Evening is strictly old news. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Director Lajos Koltai's generous application of luminous color tones over everything can't conceal his lack of control over narrative tone. Read more
David Denby, New Yorker: This is one of the rare movies that are too sensitive for their own good. Read more
Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Great cast, mediocre writing. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Things are happening too fast to be convincing, and the romance -- rather, the one-night stand -- between Ann and Harris hardly seems worth a lifetime of regret, or two hours of your time. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: This weeping ladydrama -- this cinematic doily, this chintz wing chair from a P-town antique boutique -- takes us to the oxymoronic world of WASP emotion. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: The novel is too dense, too multilayered, too overpopulated to make a satisfactory film that is also faithful to the book. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Evening could've been something precious. But it never rises above standard-issue 'chick flick'. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Evening might be the most shocking waste of natural resources since the despoiling of the Amazon rain forest. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The strength of the screenplay and acting provide a satisfying, although not overwhelming, two hours of romance, drama, and tragedy. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There are few things more depressing than a weeper that doesn't make you weep. Evening creeps through its dolorous paces as prudently as an undertaker. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: In its pursuit of superior craftsmanship and high-minded lyricism, Evening constantly risks sliding down the slippery slope into inept sentimentality and self-caricature. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Evening achieves a kind of wisdom, though it's a strange and bitter wisdom. The film arrives at a pessimistic and almost nihilistic view of life as something not very important -- and then invites us to take strength and comfort in the notion. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Designers will drool, but the problem is that Evening should have more going for it than Architectural Digest allure. Read more
Rob Salem, Toronto Star: Evening's visual period splendour, its vivid characterizations and their comfortably cliched relationships somehow draw us in and make us care. Read more
Amy Simmons, Time Out: The film disintegrates into an indulgent succession of intense, fawning exchanges that overwhelm Minot's thin and monotonous tale. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: A woman's deathbed reveries provide a poignant but rather obvious counterpoint to her daughters' present-day emotional concerns in Evening. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Evening is a terribly refined, painstakingly composed study in aristocratic angst that audiences will be hard-pressed to believe a word of. Read more