In Theaters
You think you’ve seen this movie. Irascible old codger (white, of course), who doesn’t need or care about any other human being on the planet, gets his ice-cold heart thawed by a fireball of empathy (maybe a child, or a colorful minority) who comes bounding into his life. There are indeed elements of that movie floating to the surface from time to time in Ramin Bahrani’s Goodbye Solo, but fortunately they tend to get slapped to the side by the vision (yes, we can call it that) of a filmmaker with better things on his mind…
Goodbye Solo opens today, and if things go right it could end up one of the most fondly-remembered American films of the year. Read the full review at filmcritic.com.
Chris Barsanti 