Metascore
55 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Let loose in a plot that's surprisingly modern about sex and relationships, Morton gives Eva's torn longings an immediacy that transcends a lot of damp, 1950s rusticated preciousness.
  2. A beautifully articulated and acutely perceptive work with impeccable, carefully shaded performances.
  3. Reviewed by: Laura Shin
    80
    An engrossing, superbly acted film that will haunt the viewer's thoughts long after the film is over.
  4. Most of the movie's rewards are in watching Morton.
  5. Beautifully shot and often moving.
  6. 70
    Along with Sheryl Lee, Morton is probably the best actress to have emerged in this decade.
  7. 70
    A film whose story movingly outfoxes any number of shopworn expectations on its way to a singular, heart-rending outcome.
  8. 60
    (A) languorous, mud-spattered psychological tale.
  9. Sincere acting lends the film a measure of dramatic dignity.
  10. 50
    Leaves almost no impression at all.
  11. 40
    The last scene reads like an admission of defeat.
  12. Reviewed by: Janet Maslin
    40
    Tells its glumly bodice-ripping tale with somber sensitivity.
  13. 23
    An aimless, pointless dawdle.