Marion Bridge
Metascore
71 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    Story of small triumphs and everyday sorrows is never maudlin or sentimental.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    An earnest, if dreary little Canadian domestic drama.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    80
    Remarkable for its seamless ensemble performances.
  4. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: J.R. Jones
    90
    It has all the virtues of fine stage drama: narrative economy, honest emotion, and characters so closely defined that the most pedestrian encounters between them are revelatory.
  5. The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
    Reviewed by: Rick Groen
    75
    Always engaging and often compelling.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    63
    This Canadian film is extraordinarily low-key, considering the explosive secrets the sisters unearth, but that is part of its strength.
  7. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    60
    If von Carolsfeld had worked more surprises into her style and presentation, Marion Bridge wouldn't live down to its genre stereotype so readily.
  8. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    70
    Sensitive directorial bow by editor Wiebke von Carolsfeld and solid performances lend conviction if not quite distinction to the drama Marion Bridge.
  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    75
    Downbeat but ultimately hopeful, it's a domestic tragedy that cuts clearly to the bone, finding emotional nuance among the family's knotty secrets and dense layers of subterfuge.
  10. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jessica Winter
    90
    A scrupulous and impeccably acted account of the fallout from a family secret.

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User Score
8.4 out of 10

Universal acclaim- based on 8 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 2
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 2
  3. Negative: 0 out of 2
  1. ChadS.
    7
    When the family's dark secret is finally revealed, it's a shock, because the way Louise(Stacy Smith) and Rose(Marguerite McNeil) treat their younger sister is not what you'd expect. Agnes(Molly Parker), you would think, deserves a free pass to act as wayward as she wants to be. You would be doing coke and drinking like a fish too with a father like Agnes'. There's never an open discussion if the family's patriarch acted inappropriately with the two older girls. "Marion Bridge" is so low-key, the viewer may overlook this fact. Is "Marion Bridge" too quiet? Perhaps. We're talking about incest here. But the anger is there. If quiet is the new loud, throwing a bible out an open window after Agnes reads to their dying mother, has more volume than shouting.… Full Review »
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