
Variety
It takes all the leads' considerable combined charm to forestall the aftertaste of the pic's smug life lessons and near-comically blinkered worldview.
Full reviewComedy from director Nancy Meyers (What Women Want, It's Complicated). Ben (Robert De Niro) is a 70-year-old widower who, bored with retirement, takes a job as an intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules (Anne Hathaway).
It takes all the leads' considerable combined charm to forestall the aftertaste of the pic's smug life lessons and near-comically blinkered worldview.
Full reviewA morass of wackiness, a chain of sequences shot in a flat and predictable manner that range from tedious to idiotic.
Full reviewA better, funnier and more considered movie than much of what passes for nonfranchise studio filmmaking, even as it shows a world almost exclusively white, straight and upmarket.
Full reviewThe movie offers more frustrations than rewards to discerning viewers of any age or gender.
Full reviewA sugar-sweet, wafer-thin comedy hoping to inspire many hugs across the generation gap.
Full reviewCapitalises on the believable chemistry between Hathaway and De Niro to produce a rom com that is genuinely satisfying.
Full reviewAs you'd expect, Meyers handles the material with assurance and charm, and there's fun to be had in the odd-couple dynamic at her film's heart.
Full reviewThe Intern is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Neon Rentals.
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