The Soloist
ReelViewsOne of the most difficult things for a filmmaker to accomplish is to craft a drama that provides emotional satisfaction with...
San Francisco ChronicleFor all its sensitivity to the horrors of mental illness, "The Soloist" ends up as a fairly canned piece of work.
Atomic PopcornThe Soloist has everything it needs to be decent. A true story about a homeless musician and his relationship with an L.A. T...
Filmcriticoe Wright's worlds-colliding drama The Soloist has so many strikes against it that it's hard to imagine coming out the other...
E! OnlineThis is a movie about how awesome Steve Lopez, columnist for the Los Angeles Times, is. Really, he's awesome. He makes frien...
The New Yorker“The Soloist” dramatizes a successful friendship, but it doesn’t pretend that caring for a troubled person can straighten hi...
ComingSoonWhile the film's intent on bringing attention to the crisis faced by the homeless in L.A. is a sound one, it often feels as...
New York MagazineThe movie is a noble enterprise, and Downey is stupendous as usual, but Joe Wright’s direction is too slick to elicit much f...
Village VoiceFoxx and Downey's disciplined duet come close to redeeming The Soloist from its visual excesses, but Wright leaves us with a...
Cinema BlendThough complicated by the vagaries of real life, The Soloist is essentially a pat redemption story, about two unlikely frien...
Hollywood ReporterExcellent if flawed film version of LA Times columnist Steve Lopez's series on his relationship with a schizophrenic homeles...
Chicago Sun-Times"The Soloist" has all the elements of an uplifting drama, except for the uplift. The story is compelling, the actors are in ...
VarietyNeither rarefied art film nor widely accessible inspirational drama, "The Soloist" falls between the cracks both creatively ...
Entertainment WeeklyThe Soloist is based on a true story, but it takes pains not to sweeten the facts.
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Partial Film Information
Director: Joe Wright
Writer: Susannah Grant
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey, Jr.
Release: April 24, 2009
Writer: Susannah Grant
Studio: DreamWorks Pictures
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Robert Downey, Jr.
Release: April 24, 2009
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