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31 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldThe Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldIt’s an agreeably generic mishmash of every old-guys-pull-one-last-heist movie you’ve ever seen.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenThe geezer humor is just as funny here as it was in the original version of this film, which starred George Burns, Art Carney, and Lee Strasberg. I mean this as a compliment, although it’s, admittedly, a bit backhanded.
- 63Boston GlobeTy BurrBoston GlobeTy BurrThe 1979 film was both more casual and much darker about the realities and infirmities of old age, and it had one of George Burns’s better performances. It was a funny, touching experience, and it was a bitter pill. The new movie is a placebo, with Hallmark emotions put over by a cast of solid-gold professionals.
- 63Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsGoing in Style stays in the safe zone every second, nervous about risking any audience discomfort, as opposed to Brest's quietly nervy ode to old age and its discontents. Times change.
- 63Washington PostAnn HornadayWashington PostAnn HornadayIt’s the chemistry among these three fine actors that keeps Going in Style afloat, lifting it from the formulaic and forgettable — which, essentially, it is — and making it genuinely, if modestly, enjoyable.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreIt has about as much satiric bite as a Polident commercial, a reverse mortgage of a movie promising dividends its enfeebled script never delivers.
- 50The A.V. ClubA.A. DowdThe A.V. ClubA.A. DowdIt’s probably worth noting that the whippersnapper behind the camera is none other than one-time sitcom star and indie darling Zach Braff. Did he owe someone a favor, or is this his attempt to break into the studio system he scorned with his last feature, the gooey Kickstarted passion project "Wish I Was Here"?
- 50Arizona RepublicRandy CordovaArizona RepublicRandy CordovaGoing in Style will probably be a lot more enjoyable if you’ve never seen the original. It’s not that the remake is terrible. It’s cheerful and undemanding, and an appealing cast makes the time go by painlessly enough. But the 1979 film is poignant and layered.
- 38Slant MagazineEric HendersonSlant MagazineEric HendersonNo one in Going in Style seems to really know what the hell they’re doing or why. And even though that goes double for the filmmakers, at least no one succumbs to taking any of it seriously.