The Good Heart

Paul Dano and Brian Cox star as an unlikely pair learning life lessons in a New York City dive bar.

There's a kind of wicked irony around every corner in "The Good Heart," where nothing and everything turns out exactly as it should in this story of second chances and the duck that got away. The film stars Brian Cox and Paul Dano as two mismatched souls who end up in the same hospital room, both having barely cheated death and only one happy about it. But instead of two ships passing in the night, circumstances conspire to toss them into the same lifeboat, metaphorically speaking, of course, since the story unfolds mostly in a New York City dive bar of the seediest sort. [...]

di Betsy Sharkey, articolo completo (3018 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 30 aprile 2010