This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

Not one person in this film had any sense of courtesy except the main character. He continually tries to be polite and everyone is rude to him. It was quite frustrating that he would not throw a comment back at them, his ex-wife, daughter, professor, ex-girlfriend, not one polite conversation that I saw. But then again I lost interest in the film.

I sat through the entire thing and watched intently. In fact I went back and re-watched certain segments to make sure I hadn't missed anything. Frankly, if this narrative (and I really do use that word ever so loosely) as a book, it most certainly does not as a film. The cast is marvelous...but it's not their master works. I have the feeling they didn't have to dig way too deep to conjure up their characters. It wouldn't be a far reach in other words. The director is quite good and seems to have a penchant for subtle storylines. I enjoyed the film he made with Fonda and Redford. But this one is too subtle and yet too precious, sentimental and I'd go as far as saying, pretentiously so.

I enjoyed this screen version of the award winning novel by Julian Barnes, "The Sense of an Ending." The show was intriguing, yet, baffling for not reading the book. I was looking forward to my just rewards that you find revealed in the last act of most mysteries. However, no cigar. Reluctantly I had to do some fact finding to come to some sense of closure. The labor was well worth the effort because the story was compelling for all the right reasons. Veteran actors, quality cinematography and screenplay adaption. These qualities were subtle yet clever adding to the complexity of the story. In my opinion, this subtleness culminated to a stunning end ... but wait, what just happened? Huh?Piquing curiosity led my interest to the two poets who's poems were introduced. I was hopeful they would shed some light into making sense so I could bring this to closure. I looked them up, put them into context (my version in short form) as such ...The affirmation of life, excerpts from the poet Phillip Larkin, "Audabe" ... I work all day, and get half-drunk at night. Waking at four to soundless dark, I stare. In time the curtain-edges grow light. The sky is white as clay, with no sun--work has to be done.The celebration of life, excerpts from the poet Dylan Thomas, "Do not go gentle into that good night" ... Do not go gentle into that good night, old age should burn and rave at close of day; rage, rage against the dying of light.My intent is not to baffle, rather, challenge your wits for this is one show you'll have to watch for yourself and hopefully its mystery will reveal itself to you. Perhaps then you can tell me something I don't know ... (SMILE)

There is a fine line between enigmatic and tedious and this film is right on the line. Stunning cast but too much swapping between the present and the past, too many white, middle class, unpleasant characters. The 'change' in the main character felt tacked on and implausible. Why were the lesbians a joke? Is this the new way to deal with lesbians on film, to include them but make them a bit of a joke? I disliked the feeling that young Veronica was 'cold' because she did not put out. If I was meant to be struggling as I left the cinema and indeed for much of the night then the film succeeds but I did not like it.