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Metascore ®: 75
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Critic Reviews

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Stack

Sigourney Weaver is so daring and amazing, her veracity is at times painful to behold.

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100
Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

An accomplished film that continually takes us beyond our first impressions of people and situations.

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90
Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

The movie is not tidy. Like its heroine, it doesn't follow the rules.

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88
Boston Globe | Jay Carr

Gives three first-rate actors a chance to stretch, and they do.

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75
Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

Director Scott Elliott, in his feature-film debut, is especially perceptive about what goes on at the edges during deepening family crises, literally at the borders of the screen.

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67
USA Today | Mike Clark

The movie Weaver has to carry has so many nagging imperfections that Academy Award attention looks like a long shot.

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63
Slate | David Edelstein

Occasionally dissonant, but it's remarkably cleareyed.

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60
The New York Times | Staff

Something disturbing has happened to this story en route to the screen.

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60

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