80
Total Film by Paul Bradshaw
Packing two terrific turns and an offbeat spirit, this coming-of-middle-age comedy is an unexpected treat.
Parked
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- Ireland,
- Finland
- 2010
- · 94m
Director
Darragh Byrne
Cast
Colm Meaney,
Colin Morgan,
Milka Ahlroth,
Stuart Graham,
Michael McElhatton,
David Wilmot
Genre
Drama
Fred Daly returns to Ireland with nowhere to live but his car. Then dope-smoking 21-year-old Cathal parks beside him, and brightens up his lonely world. Encouraged by Cathal, Fred meets attractive music teacher Jules. Growing closer, these three outsiders are set on a course that will change their lives forever.
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What are critics saying?
70
Village Voice
Elegant, engaging meditation on displacement and the modern man.
70
Variety by Ronnie Scheib
This engaging character study functions best as a two-hander: The male leads build a wholly believable, offbeat co-dependency, while their interactions with others tend toward the more generic.
50
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
A very sympathetic turn by Colm Meaney both lends box-office appeal and helps Byrne pull back from the saccharine possibilities inherent in the premise.
40
The New York Times by Stephen Holden
Parked collapses into sentimentality that not even an actor of Mr. Meaney's dignity and restraint can redeem from mawkishness.
40
The Guardian by Henry Barnes
Parked putters, but doesn't go anywhere.
40
Time Out by David Fear
The fact that director Darragh Byrne has laden things with a Celtic Whimsy 101 score and a sketched outline of a script makes it even tougher for Meaney to lift this film out of its social-drama rut.
25
Slant Magazine
The film takes dramatic material that sounds fairly standard-issue to begin with and proceeds to uncover precious little of genuinely fresh intrigue within it.
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