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Detroit Free Press: Perelman has directed Jennifer Connelly and Ben Kingsley, who play Kathy and Behrani, respectively, in the performances of their careers. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: The actors' focused, careful work keeps us mesmerized as the drama builds. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: You feel you not only know these people but where they come from. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: An alarmingly resonant piece of work, and there is much in it to brood on. It's also one of the most unpleasant experiences I've had at a film in ages. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: There's a lot of melodrama. But the quality of the writing and the acting in particular elevates it. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: For all its histrionics, the movie never earns your sorrow. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: It's a story that haunts long after it's seen, not just because we're overpowered by what happens to its characters but because, if we're honest, we see how all of it, even the worst of it, could happen to us. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: A powerful tale of a personal conflict that turns tragic when emotions spin out of control. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: A vigorous and bracingly acted melodrama spun off from a situation that's pure human-thriller catnip. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: This is a movie that has the strength of its convictions, and it's anchored by top-shelf performances that go out on a limb time and again. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Everything about the movie seems excessive to the material. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: It's a devastating portrait of smart, civilized people driven to behave in uncivilized ways, until it's too late. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: The vivid clarity of the images, the compressed fury of the tale, are impossible to get out of your head. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Connelly, who has often mistaken posing for acting, digs deep here; Aghdashloo ... gives us a portrait of a woman who is both dutiful to her husband and ravaged by his iron will. Kingsley is most impressive of all. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A sad, rich story, full of misunderstandings, bad bargains, odd parallels. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Gripping, intense and profoundly unsettling, House of Sand and Fog deserves a prime spot at the top of everybody's must-see list. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Vadim Perelman's impressively self-assured directing debut harvests the terror and grandeur of classical tragedy from the everyday sorrows of contemporary American life. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: A great film and one of the year's standout dramas. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Like great fiction, House of Sand and Fog sees into the hearts of its characters, and loves and pities them. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: If this movie isn't quite the contempo-Greek tragedy it wants to be, it's still a powerful, almost unforgettable meditation on fate, cultural collision and the morality of renovating a house that isn't really yours. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: House of Sand and Fog doesn't deliver on the gut level of contest, and neither does it offer any other terms in which it does deliver for the audience. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: This is an unforgettable portrait of decent, well-meaning, conflicted people moved to frustration, helplessness and grief. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: A superior, heartbreaking film. Read more
Derek Adams, Time Out: Perelman and his long-suffering stars make a spectacle of pain, but fail to register any lighter notes, while the denouement seems calculated to wring out every last tear. Read more
Ed Park, Village Voice: Airlessly melodramatic, full of moral brow-furrowing. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: If "House of Sand and Fog" ultimately feels like a failed exercise, it has less to do with Perelman's limitations than with a book that would have been better served by staying on the page. Read more