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The Family

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United States, France · 2013
Rated R · 1h 51m
Director Luc Besson
Starring Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Tommy Lee Jones, John D'Leo
Genre Crime, Comedy, Action

The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.

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Village Voice by

You can be chuckling one minute then cowering and cringing the next, which tinges the humor with apprehension and taints the brutality with absurdity. That isn't to say that the combo doesn't work at all.

25

The Playlist by Gabe Toro

The Family is ultimately a headache, nearly two hours of baseball bat beatings and dull witticisms, with zero inventiveness or energy.

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New York Daily News by Joe Neumaier

It’s too bad we can’t take a hit out on The Family. This unexciting, unfunny would-be action satire is filled with Italian-American stereotypes, decades-old TV-style Mafia cliches, bits of business that never amount to anything and actors so much better than the hoary, one-joke material.

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Miami Herald by Rene Rodriguez

The Family is the rare breed of pitch-black comedy that effectively uses violence for laughs or gasps, depending on the situation.

50

McClatchy-Tribune News Service by Roger Moore

Besson aims his movie at anyone who’s ever held a grudge at an ill-mannered French waiter or clerk (haughty, and by the way, they’d NEVER condescend to speak to you in English). If that includes you, The Family has serves up a little wish-fulfillment payback, with a baseball bat.

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The New York Times by Stephen Holden

The movie has holes galore. It has abrupt tonal shifts, an incoherent back story and abandoned subplots. It doesn’t even try for basic credibility. But buoyed by hot performances, it sustains a zapping electrical energy.

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