The Best You Can

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The Best You Can

2025

1h 43m

Drama

Romance

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Reuniting Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon on screen for the first time in twenty years, THE BEST YOU CAN is a sharp, touching, and laugh-out-loud exploration of change, losing our bearings, and finding connection in the most unexpected places. This character-driven comedy is a reminder that sometimes the people who understand us best are the ones who are nothing like us.

Caryn James

The Hollywood Reporter

With strong performances and a fresh premise about an unexpected friendship in middle age, but far too many creaky comic tropes, the uneven film is always watchable but never pops off the screen in a gripping way.

Jun 10, 2025

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Elizabeth Weitzman

TheWrap

So no, perhaps this isn’t the most sophisticated project these accomplished veterans might have chosen. But sometimes, it’s enough just to spend time with people you enjoy.

Jun 10, 2025

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Tomris Laffly

Variety

While a little contrived at times, Michael J. Weithorn’s unassuming dramedy feels comfortingly sweet thanks to an earned ending and the real-life couple’s natural on-screen ease.

Jun 10, 2025

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Will Bjarnar

InSession Film

That The Best You Can is far too easy a film to invest in affectionately will diverge audiences, to be sure.

Rated: C+

Jun 13, 2025

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Pete Hammond

Deadline Hollywood Daily

This is something many people of a certain age may identify with, the inevitability of growing old in a society that caters to a generation to which they both don’t belong. What makes it work is its star teaming.

Jun 9, 2025

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Nadia Dalimonte

Next Best Picture

Too many competing plots, an uneven tone, and two-dimensional characters bury the film in a wasteland of generic romantic comedies and dramas.

Rated: 5/10

Jun 7, 2025

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Synopsis

Reuniting Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon on screen for the first time in twenty years, THE BEST YOU CAN is a sharp, touching, and laugh-out-loud exploration of change, losing our bearings, and finding connection in the most unexpected places. This character-driven comedy is a reminder that sometimes the people who understand us best are the ones who are nothing like us.

Director: Michael J. Weithorn
Producer: Victoria Hill, Andrew Mann, Kyra Sedgwick, Kevin Bacon, Michael J. Weithorn, Andrew Wonder
Screenwriter: Michael J. Weithorn
Production Co: Fibonacci Films
Genre: Drama, Romance
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 43m