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Boundaries

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Canada, United States · 2018
Rated R · 1h 45m
Director Shana Feste
Starring Vera Farmiga, Christopher Plummer, Lewis MacDougall, Bobby Cannavale
Genre Comedy, Drama

Single mother Laura and her awkward 14-year-old son Henry are forced to drive Jack -- Laura's estranged, care-free pot dealing father -- across the country after he's kicked out of yet another nursing home. The drug-fueled journey of one bizarre, disjointed family.

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IndieWire by Eric Kohn

Boundaries breaks no fresh ground and sags into conventional story beats on autopilot, but it’s rewarding enough to hang with these characters and roll with their mudslinging.

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The A.V. Club by Jesse Hassenger

It’s supposed to be evocative, but in many scenes the characters just look dim and overly backlit, to the point of obscuring the actors’ expressiveness. There might be another metaphor in there somewhere.

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Los Angeles Times by Justin Chang

Feste...has been known to elicit strong performances even from thuddingly obvious, maudlin material. But her attempts to establish an atmosphere of drab, low-key realism — evident in the dim lighting, wobbly framing and Laura’s penchant for rumpled plaid shirts — can scarcely conceal the essential phoniness of the material.

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Slant Magazine by Keith Watson

Christopher Plummer brings a twinkly eyed insouciance to his character, but there's only so many times Jack can make a joke about, say, his adult diapers before it becomes thin and hollow.

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Entertainment Weekly by Leah Greenblatt

It all bumps along, as road trips do, through silliness and boredom and occasional, unexpected charm. But Feste’s story never really gets the rhythms right, and Boundaries finally reaches the end of the road, feeling like nothing so much as a missed opportunity.

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Variety by Owen Gleiberman

Boundaries, to be sure, delivers you to a place you know you’re going, but there should always be room for a movie that does that this well.

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TheWrap by Robert Abele

So much of Boundaries coasts on hackneyed complications and characters’ self-defeating actions that one wonders why we should believe anything anybody says.

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