Starting Out in the Evening

Good work going on, but I came away with a big 'Eh!'...

Low-key drama is perhaps a little too low-key for its own good; Langella is an extraordinarily touching and vulnerable lead, with Ambrose and Taylor equally fine in support. The evolution of the various characters relationships are not always convincing, and the abrupt shifts to the much less interesting Lester/Taylor coupling detract, but overall emerges as a fine and contemplative study on the process of ageing.

Very underrated. Langella, Ambrose and Taylor are all in great form here. A very good, almost great, movie about life, love, loss and literature.

Sensitive film about an aging novelist, played with great sensitivity and vulnerability By Frank Langella.

Very underrated movie. I was impressed yet again by Frank Langella, and pleasantly surprised by both Lili Taylor and Lauren Ambrose. It has some important things to say about aging, at several stages in one's life, and about creativity or self expression. This movie may mean something totally different to every viewer, so it's hard to give a detailed review. I can't believe that this went underneath everybody's radar in 2007, including mine. Go see it.

Nicely done drama, although the subplot about the author's daughter's lovelife has nothing to do with the rest of the movie. I've written screenplays that stole a couple of ladies' hearts to what looks like the same level of intensity that Ambrose displays here, so I must admit I'm kind of biased

Thoughtful, understated... Frank Langella is (unexpectedly, for me, at least) excellent. He makes not a false move or facial expression the entire movie. And Lauren Ambrose is almost equally good. There is something about Lili Taylor that annoys me, but I gotta admit she's pretty good here, too. Adrian Lester, as her boyfriend, certainly is pretty... and he can act. Worthwhile.

A "small" film, and one that is very much worth seeing. It is about the relationship between an old (not "aging" - OLD) writer, famous in the 'late '50s and '60s , now blocked and unproductive, and a young female graduate student who comes into his life intending to write an MA thesis about his (previous) work. Langella and Ambrose are terrific in their roles. Neither of the two lead characters is especially likable, but they certainly hold your attention every moment they are on screen.

"Self-contained and silly." - Jason Clark

This movie plods along and occasionally shows a glimmer of promise, but doesn't materialize into anything insightful or all that worthwhile. Not to say the performances were bad, the story simply doesn't go anywhere interesting and is ultimately a long drag. There were a few promising May-September romance scenes which also fell flat. When it was over, I was left asking "Is that all there is?".

I don't care about this novelist and I care even less about his daughter.

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