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The Tender Bar
Directed by
George Clooney
R
2021
1h 46m
Drama
,
Biography
6.7
51%
69%
Rent for $3.99
A boy growing up on Long Island seeks out father figures among the patrons at his uncle's bar.
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Cast of The Tender Bar
Ben Affleck
Charlie Maguire
Tye Sheridan
JR Maguire
Daniel Ranieri
Young JR Maguire
Lily Rabe
Dorothy Maguire
Christopher Lloyd
Grandpa Maguire
Max Martini
The Voice, JR's father
Rhenzy Feliz
Wesley
Briana Middleton
Sidney
Max Casella
Chief
Sondra James
Grandma Maguire
Michael Braun
Bobo
Matthew Delamater
Joey D
Ivan Leung
Jimmy
Danielle Ranieri
Aunt Ruth
Kate Avallone
Kathy
Mark Boyett
Sidney's Dad
Quincy Tyler Bernstine
Sidney's Mom
Ezra Knight
Professor Van Dyke
David Carl
School Psychologist
Shannon Collis
Pat
Keira Jo Lassor
Kathy's Daughter
Jennifer C. Johnson
Mrs. Williams
Michael Steven Costello
NYT Editor
Kate Middleton
NYT Personnel Woman
Jackson Damon
NYT Copyboy
Caroline Bergwall
NYT Copygirl
Daniel Washington
Officer James
Jenny Eagan
Chief's Wife
Steve Gagliastro
Other Customer
Annabella Valle
Aunt Ruth's Kid #1
Clara Kelly
Aunt Ruth's Kid #2
Meara Mahoney Gross
Aunt Ruth's Kid #3
Ron Livingston
Future JR Maguire (voice only)
Jack Baumrind
Kid in Classroom (uncredited)
Julia Bechler
Dickens Bar Regular (uncredited)
Keith R Beck
Yale Student (uncredited)
Alissa Bourne
Dickens Bar Patron (uncredited)
The Tender Bar Reviews
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The movie isn't terrible, but too often it feels Hollywood-bland; a missed opportunity, served neat.
Entertainment Weekly
Joshua Rothkopf
You can learn a lot in a bar, especially if you commit to being an observer. WhenThe Tender Baris content to be that movie, it glints beautifully.
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
It doesn't do anything revolutionary with its well-written true story, but it's a fond tale of an impressionable, likable kid/young man who has an influential uncle and a deadbeat, out-of-the-picture dad.
Newsday
Rafer Guzman
It's basically a series of fond vignettes that don't quite add up to a proper story, but the movie has just enough charm and sweetness to get by.
Boston Globe
Mark Feeney
It's pure pleasure to see Affleck having such a good time here - and giving such good acting value.
MovieFreak.com
Sara Michelle Fetters
Nice is fine and all, but in this case, I'm not sure nice is good enough to warrant a recommendation.
Chicago Sun-Times
Richard Roeper
The stakes are low but the quality is high in director George Clooney's comforting 1970s slice of life.
Austin Chronicle
Trace Sauveur
It's hard to truly hate a film aiming for such kindly emotional resonance. But whatever slight wisdoms or truths are to be found here are squandered in a big nothing of a story trying to render them meaningful.
Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack)
Ty Burr
Affleck makes Charlie simultaneously lazy, acute, hard-nosed, and gentle, and the timing in his line delivery is phenomenal.
Crooked Marquee
Jason Bailey
That its at least watchable is an improvement; that it is even occasionally enjoyable feels like a miracle. Clooney's worst instincts occasionally kick in, but generally speaking, its a pleasant enough diversion.
The New Yorker
Anthony Lane
The gist of the critical response has been that "The Tender Bar" follows a well-worn path. Fair enough, but is that such a sin?
ABC News
Peter Travers
There's nothing fresh about a boy coming of age with the help of his bartender uncle (Ben Affleck reminding us what a terrific actor he can be), but director George Clooney's affection for the characters serves up a double of laughs and tears.
Wall Street Journal
John Anderson
The people are so familiar, and the storyline so recycled, that we viewers reflexively fill in the copious blanks in both narrative and atmosphere. But it's like bringing our own mortar to the filmmakers' collection of bricks.
FilmWeek (KPCC - NPR Los Angeles)
Christy Lemire
It is so clunky. It is so obvious. It is so riddled with clichés.
Salon.com
Gary M. Kramer
This melancholic coming-of-age film is more good than ambitious - and that may be why, even with its failings, "The Tender Bar" yields some modest pleasures.
New York Magazine/Vulture
Jen Chaney
A sweet, pat, unchallenging coming-of-age story that resembles a lot of coming-of-age stories you've seen before, but with less depth.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Tender... is an apt description for the gently heartwarming tone of this appealingly low-key, faded Kodachrome coming-of-age story, capably directed by Clooney from a screenplay by William Monahan.
Detroit News
Adam Graham
"The Tender Bar" coasts along but never gets deeper than small talk with a barkeep. Check, please.
Mashable
Kristy Puchko
Ben Affleck is fun. But he's also fun in far better movies.
Observer
Oliver Jones
As happens sometimes after spending too many hours drinking too much at your neighborhood local, one is left to wonderwhat was the point of that?
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