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80Gordon's way with actors and with screen storytelling is as impeccable as ever.
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75Handsome Harry has some shakily staged scenes and erratic acting, but it also has wonderful moments.
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75The story quietly builds to a rueful and fraught climax in which Campbell Scott does his usual exceptional work
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75It’s rare to see a film directed by a woman who knows more about men than they themselves do. With Handsome Harry, the widely respected independent filmmaker Bette Gordon has hit a bull’s eye.
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60Though there's too much movie-style self-deception, Sheridan is excellent, and his scenes with the consistently engaging, criminally underemployed Campbell Scott are subtle and serene.
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60A powerfully acted but strident road movie.
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50A slight story with little action, this rueful dissection of male bonding builds to an undeniably emotional last act.
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50As in the films that precede it, the mysteries--and terrors--of desire also propel Handsome Harry, which reunites Gordon with Luminous Motion's Jamey Sheridan, here in the title role.
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50Beginning promisingly enough, "Handsome" soon turns monotonously angst-ridden, with all humor and personality falling by the wayside.
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Harry’s haunted by his own identity crisis, but that breakdown translates into nothing but smeary, slo-mo flashbacks. Forget about insight into the macho mind-set.