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  • Summary: In his feature debut, director/co-writer Mark Milgard delivers a powerfully authentic look at young love and a poetic exploration of how love - romantic, filial, platonic - frees and heals. (Ruth Pictures)

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  1. Positive: 3 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 7
  3. Negative: 1 out of 7
  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    First-time director Mark Milgard displays enormous promise and a surprisingly sensitive touch with this beautifully rendered tragedy.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Joshua Land
    60
    Atmosphere trumps plot throughout, enabling the movie to survive an unfortunate, if inevitable, final-act turn.
  3. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    38
    It's easy to spot a failed tearjerker, though: All the characters are sobbing all over each other while the people in the audience check their watches.

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  1. ChadS.
    7
    "Dandelion" is a little like Hillary Birmingham's "Tully", but unrelentingly sad. If it wasn't for the filmmaker's predilection for pointing his camera towards nature, this indie weepie would be intolerable. [***SPOILERS***] Early in the film, Mason(Vincent Kartheiser) goes to jail for his old man, and the mystery surrounding this sacrifice is what may very well keep the audience from nodding off for the remaining hour. Kartheiser is still another actor who obviously studied Johnny Depp's early film work, which is in essence, be a sympathetic and likable mute. And sure enough, Mason is sympathetic and likable.… Expand
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