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from 50 comments
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nobody yet
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FUN
0
how good a time it was
MEANINGFUL
7
how much it moved you
Two separate readings, not parts of the score — the score says how much of it held you, these say what kind of watch it was.
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Read from 50 comments (47 from Metacritic, 3 from TMDB reviews) — 9 of them described how it moves.
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“ended up turning the TV off an hour into the movie”
j_iyengar · Metacritic ↗
“it's sooooooooooooooooo boring (at least the second half of it)”
adamSv94 · Metacritic ↗
“You will be watching your watch for the last hour”
adamSv94 · Metacritic ↗
“A scene towards the end of the film, where Clooney's character Matt King) talks to his wife complete with close up and tears failed to stir any emotions”
ypomoni · Metacritic ↗
“all I wanted to do was sleep during the entire movie”
JawsLaxerDrama · Metacritic ↗
“seems to last a lot longer then it needs to”
Apemonkey666 · Metacritic ↗
Read 28 Aug 2026 · confidence 75% · scored on the same 0-100 scale as a community score · how this works
Published reviews, not felt experience — a different question from the one above, and never mixed into the FlickFeel score.
It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.
“The Descendants is that rare bird, moving, enlightening, funny and unapologetically human. It's one of the year's best pictures, one to savor and think about.”
Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine · 100
“After a five-year wait since "Sideways," Alexander Payne has made his best film yet with The Descendants. Ostensibly a study of loss and coping with a tragic situation, this wonderfully nuanced look at a father and two daughters dealing with the imminent death of his wife and their mother turns the miraculous trick of possibly being even funnier than it is moving.”
Todd McCarthy, The Hollywood Reporter · 100
“Heartwarming, tragic and, at times, hilariously funny drama.”
Gail MacDonald, The Globe and Mail (Toronto) · 100
“Payne's low-key approach only deepens the film's intimate power. Want a movie you can really connect with? The Descendants is damn near perfect.”
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone · 100
“To call The Descendants perfect would be a kind of insult, a betrayal of its commitment to, and celebration of, human imperfection. Its flaws are impossible to distinguish from its pleasures.”
A.O. Scott, The New York Times · 100
Scores from Metacritic and Rotten Tomatoes, read 28 Aug 2026. Quotes belong to their publications and link to the full reviews.
it reviews better than it plays — critics 86, the watch 52
Grouped by where it was written, because a considered review and a reaction typed an hour after the credits are different things. Every quote links to its source.
“ended up turning the TV off an hour into the movie”
j_iyengarabout 0–50% inread it ↗
“it's sooooooooooooooooo boring (at least the second half of it)”
adamSv94about 50–100% inread it ↗
“You will be watching your watch for the last hour”
adamSv94about 66–100% inread it ↗
“A scene towards the end of the film, where Clooney's character Matt King) talks to his wife complete with close up and tears failed to stir any emotions”
ypomoniabout 80–90% inread it ↗
“Sorry, but this movie was unwatchable for me. The premise is clever enough. The wife of a romantically unavailable husband has a fatal accident and he's forced to repair his relationship with his alienated daughters. It's good chick-flick material and no doubt, all the women scored it high and not only because of George Clooney. I normally love his work, but this premise is so poorly executed in this film that even he can't find a solid stage on which to base his acting. There are too many good ”
badelfread it ↗
“I really like this movie... I've watched it many times and am always entertained. I like the Hawaii locations, the young Woodley, Clooney's clumsy but morally accommodating character, and the confrontations with life's inevitable surprises. All the characters gel, and the story moves forward with some sadness as well as some laughs. 8 out of 10 stars”
Unknownianread it ↗
“**An elegant and moving film about family, family values and how they change and adapt to new times.** Overall, I liked this movie. Skillfully directed by Alexander Payne, the film tackles several issues around a Hawaiian family in apparent disintegration: while his wife is in a coma due to an accident, and the doctors are deciding what to do, the protagonist has to take responsibility for the education and guidance of his two daughters, each troubled in her own way, and to decide what to d”
Filipe Manuel Netoread it ↗
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