The Professor

    The Professor
    2018

    Synopsis

    A world-weary college professor is given a life-changing diagnosis and decides to throw all pretense and conventions to the wind and live his life as boldly and freely as possible with a biting sense of humor, a reckless streak and a touch of madness.

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    Cast

    • Johnny DeppRichard Brown
    • Rosemarie DeWittVeronica Sinclair-Brown
    • Odessa YoungOlivia Brown
    • Danny HustonPeter Matthew
    • Zoey DeutchClaire
    • Devon TerrellDanny
    • Ron LivingstonHenry Wright
    • Linda EmondBarbara
    • Matreya ScarrwenerRose
    • Siobhan Fallon HoganDonna

    Recommandations

    • 63

      Slant Magazine

      The film goes down easy because it saves the self-improvement clichés for the homestretch.
    • 50

      The Playlist

      Despite 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.
    • 50

      New York Post

      Zoey 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.”
    • 50

      RogerEbert.com

      There’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.
    • 40

      Los Angeles Times

      The 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.
    • 40

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The picture fares better at finding occasional moments of warmth than at convincing us of its characters' reality.
    • 38

      Movie Nation

      It flirts with being offensive, but falls short. It’s not entirely maudlin, not wholly misogynistic, but close enough.
    • 30

      Variety

      From 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.

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    • Danka S. Kojić