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Reviews Counted:139
Fresh:96
Rotten:43
Average Rating:6.4/10
Consensus: Year of the Dog is a warm and quirky comedy that never condescends to its eccentric characters.
Runtime: 1 hr 38 mins
Genre: Comedies
US Box Office: $1,470,625
Synopsis: Any dog-lover would be a fool to pass up this charming dark comedy from director/screenwriter/actor Mike White (THE GOOD GIRL, SCHOOL OF ROCK, CHUCK AND BUCK). Famous for her iconic portrayal of... [More]
Starring: Molly Shannon, Peter Sarsgaard, John C. Reilly, Regina King
Director: Mike White
White is a clever writer, and many of his best lines will sneak up on you long after you leave the theater. There's a stealthy sweetness to the movie, a desire to understand those who go their own way, that would seem to be his ultimate aim.
Top CriticThis decidedly odd little character study is always engrossing because we're never sure what Peggy will do next and Shannon plays her as a mouse who dares to roar.
There's a good subject buried here: The way the lives of animal lovers can be upended by the loss of a pet.
[An] eccentric, affecting comedy.
A charming slice-of-life...Molly Shannon gives a multifaceted Oscar-caliber performance of insight and subtlety.
A reality-based fairy tale of Southern California as a sun-kissed land filled with normal-looking obsessives, of whom Peggy is by far the least doctrinaire going in.
That’s 15 hours and 45 minutes in dog hours, and let me tell you, it damn well feels like it.
I mean no impertinence when I say that as a portrait of love and grief, writer-director Mike White's exceptional film Year of the Dog deserves the same admiration accorded Joan Didion's exceptional memoir The Year of Magical Thinking.
What could have been a feel-good performance from Molly Shannon is instead delicate, poignant, and an unexpected display of dramatic mastery from an actress who's made her name with comedy.
The movie is original and disappointing at the same time. But I still have faith in Mike White.
A touching comedy about a lonely young woman who follows her bliss and finds all she needs in the companionship of animals.
Shannon's richly minimal performance—a series of reactions, most ranging from deadpan to perturbed -- derives pathos from the familiarly elemental: happy, sad, bitter.
Molly Shannon's tragically kooky protagonist samples both human and canine companionship in the search for an ideal mate.
Minor but moving, it's a story about, and for, outsiders...and PETA members as well.
Mike White's 'Year of the Dog': Smart, witty film about the consequences of single-minded committment.
Perhaps one of the great dog stories ever.
Best thing to be said about this fluffy crowd-pleaser is that contrary to Hollywood's dictum (beware of children and animals), the dogs, cute and reliable as they are, don't steal the show from Shannon who holds the uneven feature on her solid shoulders
It's a testament to writer/director Mike White's talents that Peggy's miseries are shown as humorously tragic, but also simply, plainly painful.
Year of the Dog is an enjoyable, patchy, rambling affair, a series of bittersweet comic sketches strung together with thin wire.
The supporting cast of Mike White's directorial debut offer plenty of laughs, but it always comes down to Molly Shannon being the movie's weak link.
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