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The Humbling
The film revolves around actor Simon Axler (Al Pacino), who has outlasted his struggle to find his passion for life again. In this series of conflicts and confrontations, there will be a point of collapse, where the actor finds a motive in the form of a lively young lesbian, Pegeen Stapleford (Greta Gerwig). Meanwhile, Simon seems to have a hard time keeping up with Pegeen who co-exists with more events during that period.
24 July 1940, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
7 October 1959, Syracuse, New York, USA
16 September 1956, Chicago, Illinois, USA
5 August 1980, New York, USA
14 May 1956, Hollywood, California, USA
April 28, 2015
A messy movie but also a thrilling one, grappling with diminished talents and vanishing virility in brutally honest ways that show up the similarly-themed Birdman as a cheap parlor trick.
January 22, 2015
If you liked Birdman, you also might like seeing Al Pacino playing a delusional, indeed hallucinatory, actor trying to save his soul and his onstage career in the sort-of-comedy The Humbling. Or you might not.
January 23, 2015
An unusually charming dark comedy about an actor teetering on the edges of reality, fantasy and career.
December 18, 2015
This is really two stories: one about an old guy trying to prove he's still got it sexually speaking, and the other about an artist losing a grip on his craft. The latter plot point is decent. The former? Yuck.
March 15, 2016
A melancholic alternation of bitter and comedic sketches, all resolutely low-key and wildly uneven.
May 22, 2016
It definitely seems like there is a thin line between method acting and insanity in The Humbling.
January 26, 2015
"The Humbling" reveals an ominous gulf between the director and his theme ...
December 31, 2015
It's a mopey, silly situation, whose only tension comes from our perpetual fear that Levinson is about to make us watch a somber drama copulating with a farce.
January 23, 2015
Pacino gives a refreshingly quiet and understated performance with poignant moments of vulnerability. It is the most consistent factor in a film that is frustratingly inconsistent.
January 22, 2015
The movie is too shrewd to qualify as a jeremiad, but underneath the comedy are boiling undercurrents of anger and despair.
January 29, 2015
This is Pacino's best film performance in years. In playing an actor who has lost the art of fooling himself, he reveals with mordant wit the terrors of diminished capacity. To watch him do it is a master class.
May 30, 2016
In the end, 'The Humbling' is one of those movies where the "plot" is far less interesting than what the movie is "about" - and in this case, it's about acting in general and Al Pacino in particular.