New York Post: Presence Under the Tree

By Kyle Smith
New York Post
Excerpt
December 4, 2009

After seeing "Everybody's Fine," Paul McCartney offered to write a song that plays over the closing cred its. That may be because the whole movie is like a celluloid McCartney tune: warm and playful and sweetly earnest, but lightly funny, too, and crafted with consummate skill.

Robert De Niro gives a nicely muted performance as a recently widowed father of adult children who is proudly bustling around the house to prepare a holiday welcome for all the kids. None of them is coming, though, and none is telling him everything they're worried about...

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