After learning about his terminal diagnosis, a college professor decides to live his life to the fullest by drinking, smoking and expressing real thoughts for the people around him. While going through the stages, he come to terms with the great truth of his life as he mends broken relationships, embraces the people in his life and learns to ignite his inner good spirit.... (Full plot summary below)
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After learning about his terminal diagnosis, a college professor decides to live his life to the fullest by drinking, smoking and expressing real thoughts for the people around him. While going through the stages, he come to terms with the great truth of his life as he mends broken relationships, embraces the people in his life and learns to ignite his inner good spirit.
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| Slant MagazineChuck BowenThe film goes down easy because it saves the self-improvement clichés for the homestretch. |
| RogerEbert.comNick AllenThere’s nothing wrong with a little cheese in a message about life, it’s just that with The Professor there's nothing more to it. |
| ReelViewsJames BerardinelliTo work, The Professor demands that the viewer believe in Richard and, from about the 15-minute point, I didn’t. |
| The PlaylistJessica KiangDespite a tone that oscillates between quirkish and mawkish, it’s yet another warmed-over male midlife crisis movie, given supposedly higher stakes because the middle of life will be as far as this male will get. |
| New York PostSara StewartZoey Deutch is fine in a non-demanding role as the requisite starry-eyed female student, and Danny Huston (“Wonder Woman”) gives us a softer side as Richard’s weepy best friend. But this is, at its core, a one-man show, and given the uncertain future of Depp’s career (being axed from the “Pirates of the Caribbean” franchise, for example), it might also have been titled “Johnny Says Goodbye.” |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe picture fares better at finding occasional moments of warmth than at convincing us of its characters' reality. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinThe movie, which comes off strangely wide-eyed about such “outré” things as marijuana and same-sex attraction, evokes some 1970s-era George Segal vehicle as it struggles to pair hip defiance with come-to-Jesus-style pathos, the latter of which provides a few of the film’s more compelling moments. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperIt’s never a good thing when a film about a dying man sometimes has us wondering if some of the people in his life will be better off without him. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreIt flirts with being offensive, but falls short. It’s not entirely maudlin, not wholly misogynistic, but close enough. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeFrom its rigid, symmetry-inclined compositions to its heavily worked one-liners, this is cautious, stifling filmmaking in thrall to a reckless, retrograde man, who does little in the course of 90 minutes to merit great fascination or pathos. |
