Film Review - Robot & Frank

While I’m not up on my science fiction writing as most people, from my viewpoint, “Robot & Frank” is a fairly original idea massaged wonderfully by director Jake Schreier. It’s a funny movie, but not really a comedy. It’s melancholy, but far from depressing. It’s mischievous, but grounded in realism. A hodgepodge of moods built around an unlikely story of friendship between a man and his service robot, the film carries itself confidently, with occasional moments of significant emotion, articulated superbly in Frank Langella’s lead performance, his most memorable work in quite some time. Who really needs human co-stars when a faceless robot helps to form one of the year’s best on-screen pairings? Read the rest at Blu-ray.com