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About Schmidt is about wasted lives. These people are dull, sad or whingesomely vulgar. You laugh at them, rather than with them, and feel guilty doing so.

The performances are finely nuanced, capturing the complexities of real life individuals and avoiding caricature.

Only at the end does credibility falter.

The central portion of the film is delciously discomfiting.

Yelchin is a charismatic and believable anti-hero, smart but insecure and neither a walking wisecrack-machine nor a stereotypical ‘mixed-up kid’.

Made wondrous by an inventive script.

Surprisingly - fun for all the family.

Colin Firth gives possibly his best performance yet.

Yelchin has a unique talent. He conveys subtle child emotions with an ease and accuracy that is uncanny.

Hallström successfully captures the style of the Seventies, aided by a breezy original score by Carter Burwell. He also shows us the dark undercurrents of the period.

It is hard not to be entertained.

Reichardt’s attention to detail is visible in every aspect, and the perfect casting is no exception.

After all the care taken in this film, it's sad that the resolution is so cliched.

The real challenge is to keep up with the pace as well as the information overload.

Offers a convincing demonstration of the theorem that good writing and sensitive performances can equal an engaging and nuanced piece of cinema.

Really delivers on the robot action.

Mainstream audiences may hate and critics may debate, but Synecdoche is a work of unmitigated, undisciplined genius.

A look at the commonest fear nipping at the heart of Middle America. Not the war in Iraq, nor terrorism, but the breakdown of the family unit and how - and, indeed, if - people can cope with it.