AutCuddly Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

Orla Zuniga It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Billie Morin This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

victordelavieter It's not easy for Americans to produce credible emotions - as we see them in Europe on screen. This film goes as far in that direction as possible. It's easy to say that any flick with Philip Seymour Hoffman is a good one, and he dominates the screen indeed, but a lot of good acting happens when he isn't there too. Mark Ivanir of Saving Private Ryan fame plays a very intense Daniel and a young Imogen Poots presents a credible Alexandra.Indeed it isn't so much about music, it is about a small team of people working very intensely together, who face a major crisis and about suppressed emotions coming out because of that. The plot moves rather slowly for you to enjoy elaborate scenes some may find a bit tedious at times. Quite enjoyable for a late night viewing with a glass of wine on a quiet evening.

riojones23 A stellar cast do their best with what could have been an interesting exploration of the professional and emotional lives of top-class musicians. Unfortunately, cack-handed directing and writing means 'A Late Quartet' lacks subtlety and brings suspended disbelief crashing to the ground.Such suspension is necessary if, for example, we are to take Christopher Walken (doing his best to smother his trade-mark voice but admittedly adding a much needed third dimension to his character) seriously as a world class Cellist... The film failed to sell me the world of classical music and the lives of these characters. 'A Late Quartet' prefers excruciating exposition and hammy facts about Beethoven, which at times render the dialogue copy and paste from Wikipedia, to a sense of tone and genuine observation. Sautet's 'Un Coeur en Hiver', for example, admirably achieves what 'A Late Quartet' fails to do; namely inducting an audience into the exclusive world of classical music and high culture without treating them like idiots. The result is a beautiful film which allows the music and its characters to take centre stage, and I longed for 'A Late Quartet' to do the same and deliver on its potential. However, it fails to strike a consistent tone. At one point a scene involving Poots, Keener and Ivanir comes dangerously close to descending into a farce straight out of a lowest-common-denominator RomCom, in just one of many examples where the film contrived to undermine itself.Nonetheless, 'A Late Quartet' is not terrible and I was entertained. It offers flashes of sincerity and a few touching moments which I would attribute to the quality of the actors and an interesting conceit. However, I found myself laughing at it much more than I was moved by it. A film which is definitely hard to take as seriously as it wants to be taken.

Lee Eisenberg "A Late Quartet" looks at music as a metaphor for people's lives. The subject is a group of musicians: two violinists (Mark Ivanir and Philip Seymour Hoffman), a viola player (Catherine Keener) and a cellist (Christopher Walken). When the cellist finds that he is developing Parkinson's and probably won't be able to play for much longer, a series of things begin to happen which have a profound effect on the foursome.While the movie make substantive use of classical music - Beethoven, Hayden, Bach, etc. - there's also a sense of how the music effects the characters' egos. The first violinist really comes across as a jerk in some scenes. Not that the other characters are much better. Some scenes grow REALLY intense.It turns out to be a very interesting little movie. The collection of classical string quartets and suites to set the stage for what eventually must come to pass represents an insightful look at the role that music plays in our lives. Good support comes from cookbook author Madhur Jaffrey and "My Dinner with Andre" co-star Wallace Shawn (also of "The Princess Bride" and "Toy Story").We can only speculate on the direction that Hoffman's career would've taken had he not died.

lunchboxwanderer This is easily the most pretentious movie of the year. Not one character is believable.How can anyone relate to this artsy fartsy pablum? Most people in the real world deal with these problems on a daily basis but don't have their stories dramatized.But since it's an elitist type deal, the hoity toity crowd, it gets high ratings on IMDb.Only dooches relate to this film, most likely the worst of the decade, due to how awfully snobby it is.If I had my way, I'd send 'The Sons of Anarchy' in to break this pupu up.Now that would be a great film. These snooty tooty people getting their behinds kicked by a biker gang.You add Jason Statham to the mix and you've gotta a good film...as long as he's drinking a Schlitz tall boy at the beginning of every scene.