55
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeWith its small cast and focus on performance, Union Square promises to be a welcome showcase for Sorvino, and the early rhymes with Miss Linda are intriguingly open-ended.
- 67The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThere isn't much to Union Square, but the movie does understand how people want to love their families on their own terms, forgetting that their families may be the only ones who really know who they are.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)James AdamsThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)James AdamsUnion Square's biggest flaw is its predictability.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDespite its problems, there's a touching sweetness at the heart of Nancy Savoca's intimate family drama about estranged sisters trying to reconnect.
- 60The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottUnion Square has the busy, hemmed-in talkiness of a theater piece, with too much forced to happen in too short a time. But it also has a lively, nervous energy and an expansive sympathy for the mismatched women at its heart.
- 50Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerNancy Savoca's film begins in caricature and ends in sentimentality, only briefly hitting the sweet spot in between.
- Sorvino brings a spark, but neither she nor Patti LuPone, in an amusing cameo, can overcome the clockwork-like plod to the end.
- 42Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerChristian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe plot slogs along and family secrets are hauled out, each more implausible than the next.
- 40Time OutEric HynesTime OutEric HynesSorvino's Bronx bawler veers from mascara-streaked monster to outer-borough sage as each scene requires, while Savoca's agitated camera strains for handheld immediacy but ends up just looking amateurish and ugly.