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      The Humbling

      R Released Jan 23, 2015 1 hr. 53 min. Comedy Drama LGBTQ+ List
      53% 64 Reviews Tomatometer 28% 1,000+ Ratings Audience Score Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor (Al Pacino) becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her. Read More Read Less Watch on Peacock Stream Now

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      The Humbling is an inarguable highlight of Al Pacino's late-period filmography, but that's an admittedly low bar that it doesn't always clear by a very wide margin.

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      steve d When THIS cast does so little with your script you should feel shame. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 03/30/23 Full Review Shioka O Pacino did this and Manglehorn in the same year. Just confusing but watchable. I agree this is tailor-made for him. Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 09/26/22 Full Review jaime h god-awful but somewhat worth the watch for just how absurdly bad it is... pop an edible (if you are of age) and watch this train wreck of a movie... wow it's so bad it is almost entertaining Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member Al Pacino libera tutte le sue doti in un film che sembra costruito col solo scopo di dargli tutto lo spazio di cui ha bisogno per la recitazione; purtroppo il risultato è troppo artificioso. La trama è confusa come lo stato del protagonista, Greta Gerwig dà vita ad un personaggio piuttosto incomprensibile e senza una vera anima. In certi tratti si fa veramente a distinguere la verità dalla follia della malattia, si rivive la stessa scena con diversi svolgimenti e tutti i personaggi che girano intorno ai due protagonisti sono privi di fondamento. Rated 2 out of 5 stars 02/12/23 Full Review Audience Member Both an incredibly nuanced Pacino performance, and a nuanced script. Tragi-comedy of am actor's demise. An unusual film, with an unexpectedly powerful ending! Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/29/23 Full Review Serge L The film is more about fooling the viewers than humbling the character. Films like this are annoying. We get hooked into a story and the change is brutal if it's just dream. Okay when the film gives clues and we must deduce but this one is like a maze with dead ends. When we get out of it, we don't know where we have been. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 09/29/21 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      The Humbling (2014) The Humbling (2014) Greta Gerwig as Pegeen Mike Stapleford in "The Humbling." Greta Gerwig as Pegeen Mike Stapleford in "The Humbling." Al Pacino as Simon Axler in "The Humbling." View more photos

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      Jason Bailey Flavorwire In the end, 'The Humbling' is one of those movies where the "plot" is far less interesting than what the movie is "about" - and in this case, it's about acting in general and Al Pacino in particular. May 30, 2016 Full Review Peter Travers Rolling Stone This is Pacino's best film performance in years. In playing an actor who has lost the art of fooling himself, he reveals with mordant wit the terrors of diminished capacity. To watch him do it is a master class. Rated: 3/4 Jan 29, 2015 Full Review Anthony Lane New Yorker "The Humbling" reveals an ominous gulf between the director and his theme ... Jan 26, 2015 Full Review David Walsh World Socialist Web Site This is not earthshaking material, the relationship between Axler and Pegeen, but it is honest, amusing and sympathetic. The film is worth tracking down. Feb 12, 2021 Full Review Richard Crouse Richard Crouse It's an entertaining performance in a diverting movie but as a statement on aging or insecurity or the folly of infatuation, it never sheds much light on what King Lear called, "this great stage of fools." Rated: 3/5 Feb 2, 2021 Full Review Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens With the intimacy of a theatre piece, [Barry] Levinson and company play with the idea of art imitating life imitating art. Always bordering on the edge of fantasy and reality, insanity and sanity, the Humbling is contemplative and reflective. Dec 8, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

      Movie Info

      Synopsis Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor (Al Pacino) becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
      Director
      Barry Levinson
      Executive Producer
      Ged Dickersin, Kristina Dubin
      Screenwriter
      Buck Henry, Michal Zebede
      Distributor
      Millennium Entertainment
      Production Co
      Millennium Films, Dubin Media, Baltimore Pictures
      Rating
      R (Language|Brief Violence|Sexual Material)
      Genre
      Comedy, Drama, LGBTQ+
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Theaters)
      Jan 23, 2015, Limited
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 22, 2017
      Sound Mix
      Dolby Digital
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