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John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Imaginary Heroes mines the suburban tragedy of Ordinary People, The Ice Storm and American Beauty, but with only a quarter of the insight. Read more
Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: Imaginary Heroes may not show the directorial confidence of Zach Braff's remarkable Garden State or the emotional depth of A Home at the End of the World, but it's a strong character-driven story all the same. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Enlivened by some good performances, but it's ultimately overfamiliar and slow, and its characters feel like they were dreamed up by a screenwriter -- no one ever seems to breathe real air. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Except for Weaver's surprisingly funny, bitter performance as the film's grieving, wise-cracking, pot-smoking mother, I didn't much like Heroes -- or rather, I admired part of it without getting much engaged or moved. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: What saves Imaginary Heroes is its essential truthfulness about families, which it reveals, not only in the broad movements of its story but in the small details. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Everybody is so screwed up here that it just becomes relentlessly so. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Harris directs at a funereal pace that snuffs out his script's own wit, and only Weaver keeps the bitter laughs coming. Read more
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: [Harris] knows how to create complex, believable characters and how to inspire his talented actors. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: A depressing yarn. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Plays like Ordinary People rewritten by someone too young to imitate that film's powerful complications. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: These are not ordinary people. Or real ones. Read more
Mario Tarradell, Dallas Morning News: The ending leaves unanswered questions, but it offers enough substance to justify the nearly two-hour commitment. Read more
Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: Writer-director Dan Harris attempts a juggling act of tone, style and genre that results in about half a dozen different movies being shuffled across the screen, none of which -- despite fine performances all around -- really works. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Family crosscurrents are so rarely explored with any kind of intelligence in commercial American filmmaking, one applauds Harris for going there at all. Read more
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Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger: Just an ordinary tale of rich people in crisis. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: Hirsch is dead-on with his weary deadpan in the face of high school torment, sexual confusion and parental absurdity. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: Sigourney Weaver creates a portrait of a taut, frustrated suburban mother of three whose complexity transcends the Mom as Devourer stereotypes who have prowled the movies since Mrs. Robinson stirred her first martini. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: An honorable and superbly articulated film. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Failed ambition is still ambition. Imaginary Heroes may overreach, but it challenges us as it does. That's heroic in any filmmaker. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What remains when the movie is over is the memory of Sandy and Tim talking, and of a mother who loves her son, understands him, and understands herself in a wry but realistic way. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Yes, it's time for another visit to the suburb of Angst, located outside the metropolis of Dysfunction and just a freeway exit away from the tri-city area of Despair, Despondency and Depression. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Although she comes across as bordering on insufferable, we are expected to understand that Sandy is the touchstone of honesty in the film because, like other American films of the Sundance variety, eccentricity signifies emotional authenticity. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: Weaver pretty much keeps Imaginary Heroes aloft. Read more
David Rooney, Variety: Despite occasional affecting moments and nuanced performances from Emile Hirsch and Sigourney Weaver, the film sways awkwardly back and forth between prickly humor and pathos, rarely ringing true in either register. Read more
Laura Sinagra, Village Voice: The interior lives of Heroes' adults seem like wild guesses. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: Conversations, by the way, need to be laconic, cynical and postmodern. Tears take their time, if they come at all. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: An ambitious, uneven directorial debut. Read more