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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonChicago TribuneMichael WilmingtonA "Chekhovian" movie that's closer to the master's mood than many, it's also a jazzy, rainy day film that makes serious and amusing points about life and people in the midst of its downpour.
- A quiet, thoughtful film about isolation and separation.
- 70Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThis is familiar but atmospheric, with good performances by Peter Falk, Blythe Danner, Joey Bilow, Michael Santoro, Merle Kennedy, and former football pro Don Meredith.
- 63New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoA well-written and -acted drama that's also unrelentingly grim.
- 63Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThree Days of Rain is only a sketch compared to the power of Rodrigo Garcia's "Nine Lives," which continues to grow in my memory.
- 60The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenThe Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMeredith has woven together a half-dozen portraits of contemporary lives-on-the-edge in this quietly searing drama.
- 60The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayBeautifully lit, with some inventive but unobtrusive framing, and the moody jazz score unifies the multiple storylines without overwhelming them. Yet while the movie never goes slack, it never really transcends its good intentions either.
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe acting and stories are uneven, but Erick Avari, as a man who wakes up to his humanitarian obligations, provides the movie's affecting center, and Peter Falk gives a harrowing performance as a hopeless drunk trying to manipulate his grown son.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceThe real subversion is director Michael Meredith's insistence on not capturing interactions between human beings in a frame; with some forethought he could have filmed the actors individually and spliced.
- 20VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibRain strives for a "Magnolia"-type tapestry of quiet desperation. But after 90 unremitting minutes of badly acted, atrociously written histrionic misery, pic leaves one praying for frogs.