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
Johnny Depp is a university professor with six months left to live in this comedy drama from Katie Says Goodbye director, Wayne Roberts. Following the diagnosis, he begins living his life with reckless abandon.
The film was released in the States as The Professor.
2019Rating: CTC90 minsUSA
Drama
- 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.
Full reviewSlant 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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