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Unfortunately, Sleepwalking isn’t content being a character study of damaged adult siblings (if it were, it would have made a nice companion piece to Kenneth Lonergan’s "You Can Count on Me," which is a far less sobering, but far more effective, movie).
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50The movie seems terrified of true psychological complexity or perversity. It's less a family tragedy than a lousy country dirge.
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50The movie seems unusually honest in portraying the no-option existence of the working poor, but the story slips into melodrama in the last reel.
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38Despite honorable work from Theron, Robb and Stahl, Sleepwalking makes good on its title in a not-so-good way.
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75Despite its deficiencies, and the inadequate screen time allotted to Theron (who's quite good), Sleepwalking has a core of feeling. It's about a do-gooder who, lacking all skills for it, does good anyway. His emotional odyssey has real poignancy.
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0A soporific dud, which should have been tossed out of Sundance.
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50It’s a shame that this film’s star-studded cast wasn’t able to save the mediocre storyline.
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50Terrific performances and a bleak, riveting look at life on the economic fringes eventually gives way to an overly familiar tale of abuse, denial and catharsis that feels like warmed over Sam Shepard minus the poetry.
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50But the regularly overlooked Stahl burrows honestly into this unpleasant place, adding another worthy portrait to his indie gallery of interesting losers. He's still an actor worth keeping your eyes on. Assuming you can keep them open.
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38Relentlessly depressing.
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50A bummer.
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50A feeling of hopelessness pervades Sleepwalking.
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40There's loads of suffering in Sleepwalking, piled on until the picture almost becomes an unintentional comedy.
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25A slow-moving family drama guaranteed to induce a nap if not somnambulism.
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50Well-intentioned to a fault, Sleepwalking blurs the line between dramatizing free-floating misery and spreading it.
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50The whole picture plays like a pop-up book in a welfare agency.
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Even if the movie takes you to some dark places you would rather not visit, at least you will remember the actors who navigate the tortured journey.
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40As Mr. Maher, in his feature directing debut, brings in surreal touches and puts on literary airs, the film’s grip loosens, and its vernacular turns increasingly wooden.
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50It's because of AnnaSophia Robb's performance...I don't think you'll see a more fascinating and nuanced performance at the movies this year.
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63Stanford's script is painfully obvious, right down to the line of dialogue spelling out the title's significance.
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50Portentous and dull, the film features one of the worst over-the-top performances by Dennis Hopper, who plays an abusive father.
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50The overly simplistic script by Zac Stanford (“The Chumscrubber”) hits nothing but high notes, making the whole dramatically less than the sum of its parts.
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Theron and Woody Harrelson provide vitality against the film's heavy load, but they aren't around long enough to keep it from collapsing under its own portentous weight.
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30An inert, sloppily written melodrama as grim and featureless as its frozen Midwestern setting.