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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: This is the kind of restrained, deeply human relationship picture that Hollywood -- in its rush to keep us from ourselves -- has forgotten how to make. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: We sense from its opening minutes that we are in the hands of accomplished storytellers. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's a really powerful piece of work. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: A rare cinematic creature: a very depressing film that gives you a lift with the sheer magic of its craft. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: The actors, especially the leads, give performances ... rich, connected and full of nuance and spontaneity. Read more
Stephen Holden, New York Times: An astonishingly rich, detailed and grimly moving piece of work. Read more
John Anderson, Newsday: Field has made a movie in which everything feels organic, nothing seems untrue and the effect is unforgettable. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Quite simply, it's exquisite filmmaking. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: With performances that will raise the hairs on the back of your head, it's a film that knows the private geography of love, grief and obsession. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Like most movies directed by actors, this is a wonderful acting showcase. Read more
Steven Rosen, Denver Post: Gets at what most Hollywood movies are afraid to say about the way we live on the edge of tragedy. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The uncoagulated anguish of parents mourning the death of a child has rarely been more powerfully depicted than in the collected vignettes of grief, rage, and retribution that make up the riveting domestic drama In the Bedroom. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: There has probably not been a more adult American film made in the last year. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Goes the distance to avoid banalizing the dilemma of a reasonable couple unhinged by unreasonable events. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Field exhibits a mastery of his craft many filmmakers never acquire in a lifetime. Read more
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Rex Reed, New York Observer: Brilliant, lyrical, sensitive, literate and heartbreaking. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It epitomizes what an American independent film can be when the director is willing to abandon the safety net. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There are scenes as true as movies can make them. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: A serious drama about violence and morality that plays out with a fatalistic intensity somewhere between Greek tragedy and film noir. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: Field has a talent for drawing us directly into his characters' lives and making us feel what they feel. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Lingers in the mind, suffusing melancholy with the fateful pall of dread that hangs over all of life's pleasures. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: Succeeds with performances that get some of their power from imaginative casting. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Field's leisurely buildup forestalls but doesn't prevent his movie's mutation into a granola Death Wish. Read more