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Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) a score of 3.0143 out of 4

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Excellent

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Very Good

(161)

Good

(34)

Fair

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Film Freak Central

Royal Tenenbaum (Gene Hackman) is the estranged patriarch of the Tenenbaums, a family of child prodigies that, beset by a series of "accidents and disasters," has never again attained the heights of its early glories. Chas (Ben Stiller), an economics...read the complete Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) review at Film Freak Central

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Empire Magazine (Caroline Westbrook)

One of the cleverest comedies to happen along in ages....read the complete Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) review at Empire Magazine (Caroline Westbrook)

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Kino (Alessandro Bencivenni)

Il brullo panorama dei vari medici in famiglia e delle altre desolanti fiction televisive invoca a giustificazione della propria piattezza il principio che lo spettatore ama identificarsi in una rassicurante banalità che gli assomiglia. Se così fosse...read the complete Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) review at Kino (Alessandro Bencivenni)

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TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)

The comedy is threadbare, the drama plays like an afterthought, and there are too many characters to thoroughly develop any one of them....read the complete Royal Tenenbaums, The (2001) review at TheMovieBoy.com (Dustin Putman)