| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Disarms with its sincerity and frankness.
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| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
This patient, perceptive, nonjudgmental love story about age difference is the first to convincingly explain the temporal physics of May-December romances.
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| 90 |
Variety
Wonderfully acted and slickly mad. Acutely written with an eye to the motivations and ambiguities involved on both sides in such a relationship.
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| 90 |
Rolling Stone
Offers something magical in the haunting and hypnotic performance of Sarah Polley...(the film) cuts deep.
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| 88 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie's heart is in the right place.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
Affecting, gloriously acted.
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| 80 |
Mr. Showbiz
As talented as Polley proved herself in "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Go," this is her best work yet.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Affectionately told ...beguiling.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
An enigmatic but gorgeous film.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
At the heart of the film, Polley - with her wary, unsure stares, her open smile and beguiling intelligence - is terrific.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Should make Polley, memorable in "The Sweet Hereafter" and "Go," into a bona-fide star.
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| 75 |
TNT RoughCut
Morgan Fouch
Polley's doe-eyed innocence is in overdrive.
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| 70 |
Dallas Observer
Rea hits just the right balance of sympathy and self-interest.
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| 63 |
New York Daily News
Polley, the paraplegic incest victim in Atom Egoyan's "The Sweet Hereafter," gives a mesmerizing central performance.
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| 63 |
USA Today
The cumbersome wrap-up, which follows a four-year narrative gap, seems too fanciful and bogs down what has been a stronger second hour.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
A shy and depressed college graduate falls in love with a Bohemian artist, as in Woody Allen's "Manhattan."
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
While the appeal of Guinevere is decidedly intermittent, it's there, and the acting is right on the money.
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| 60 |
Film.com
A good, though unremarkable, film.
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| 60 |
TV Guide
Deftly mixes rueful sentimentality and trenchant observations about the constantly shifting balance of power that drives relationships.
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| 60 |
Los Angeles Times
We have a right to yawn, but we don't, and Sarah Polley is the reason.
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| 50 |
Salon.com
It doesn't take Rea long to decide that he's more interested in extending his record for Longest Acting Career Sustained on One Expression, and he's back to his baggy-eyed, hangdog look.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Examiner
Implausibly dainty.
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| 50 |
Austin Chronicle
Bogs down during several fuzzily romantic interludes.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Except for Polley and Rea, the performances are heavy-handed.
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| 40 |
Chicago Reader
Partly because the seducer's technique is methodical--as a former conquest explains to the naive heroine--the movie's answers are too easy.
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