Postia pappi Jaakobille 2009

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Transforms a picture-postcard location and odd-couple narrative into a pretty, and pretty predictable, snooze. Read more

Nick Schager, Time Out: There's only one thing worse than a leaden moral fable that tackles issues of forgiveness with sledgehammer contrivances, and that's one that attempts to mask its manipulative corniness with an air of trumped-up gravity. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: It's a story of faith expressed with simple grace and the small deeds of a pardoned sinner still searching for forgiveness. It is like a minimalist stage play -- three acts, two characters, quietly redemptive. Read more

Ernest Hardy, L.A. Weekly: There's a sparse elegance to writer-director Klaus Haro's Letters to Father Jacob, a lean, engrossing character study about loneliness, redemption and the power of faith. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Letters could be dismissed as a soap opera, but that would be unfair to this beautiful work. Read more