Variety
The character's misogyny seems to have bled into the screenplay: Women, be they loveless middle-aged shrews or guileless ingenues, exist here solely to prompt and inspire our downtrodden hero's cathartic disobedience.
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Richard Says Goodbye
- Director:
- Wayne Roberts ('Katie Says Goodbye')
- Writer:
- Wayne Roberts
- Cast:
- Johnny DeppZoey DeutchDanny HustonRosemarie DeWittDevon TerrellOdessa YoungSiobhan Fallon HoganLinda Emond
Richard Says Goodbye | Reviews
The New York Times
Depp's turbocharged archness is basically the whole show. The actor appears as out of whits to give as the man he's playing, with little interest in enunciating clearly or hiding his self-regard.
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Slant Magazine
The film goes down easy because it saves the self-improvement clichés for the homestretch.
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Screen Daily
This film is an easy target for being misintepreted by those with an axe to grind in the "me too" era; a sadder truth is that its clumsy approach was most likely unintentional.
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Roger Ebert
[The Professor] is more subservient to feel-good cliches than its too-cool-for-school veneer indicates.
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Los Angeles Times
Depp, sporting a distractingly foppish, unfurling-flag hairdo, commits to his character's tricky balancing act but over-relies on his signature rakishness to fully convince.
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Hollywood Reporter
Though Roberts' screenplay draws attention to its structure with frequent chapter headings, it plays like a work that has been victimised by too many editors, each trying to achieve something different.
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Richard Says Goodbye | Release Details
Richard Says Goodbye is available to stream in Australia now on Google Play and Apple TV and Foxtel and Prime Video Store.