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30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrIt isn't often that lives of quiet desperation are served up with such pearly restraint.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumHaunting and hopeful.
- 90SalonCharles TaylorSalonCharles TaylorAn almost perfectly realized poetic vision of people who continue in their everyday existence certain that life in a larger sense has passed them by.
- 80Film.comFilm.comEtched with sensitivity and wit, above all with an unpatronizing compassion for ordinary people going about their business on an extraordinary day.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyLaced with magic-realist bittersweetness.
- 75Baltimore SunAnn HornadayBaltimore SunAnn HornadayPossesses moments of fleeting grace, pathos and beauty, even if it ultimately doesn't amount to much.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyNumerous lovely, quirky moments.
- 63New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanBoasts several fine performances and some elegant, eerie black-and- white photography.
- 50TNT RoughCutTNT RoughCutMore of a moody performance piece than a film.
- 40TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissThe film is one-note; misery is the only game in town.