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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: All the astute acting in the world can't bring such a preposterous story into the station on time and intact. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: Rails & Ties is so self-consciously unadorned that it feels as if its director didn't want us to think that she was trying to make a cinematic statement. She hasn't. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The opening act is strong, but the story's trajectory is so obvious this often seems to be traveling along tracks as well -- into a valley of soap suds. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: It's hard to get over the implausibility of the premise in Micky Levy's script, even though the characters themselves acknowledge that they're in a ridiculous situation. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: There's a chance that a good film might have been salvaged from these questionable ingredients, but Eastwood opts for the tried-and-true approach of tearjerkers past. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: As lovely as some of the footage looks and as committed as are the three lead performances, they serve only to make Rails & Ties play like an exceptionally well-acted and well-made Lifetime movie. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: It's becoming a bit tiresome watching Kevin Bacon suffer, and he isn't done any favors by this thudding weeper. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: No doubt about it, Alison Eastwood has picked up a thing or two from her old man. Her debut feature is slow, deliberate, assured, and shot with a graceful feel for place -- none of which is enough to overcome the creaky themes. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Scripts [don't] come any sudsier than Micky Levy's awesomely bathetic Rails & Ties. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: A movie that should have had some more work done to it, and could have been better if it had, arrives with all its flaws carefully preserved. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: A modest but emotionally affecting drama. Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: The only conceivable reason for Warner Bros. to (barely) release this mush is as a favor to Clint Eastwood, whose daughter Alison directed. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mr. Bacon, Ms. Gay Harden and Mr. Heizer are talented enough almost to bring off this fragile conceit -- almost, but not quite. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: I think somehow the filmmakers lost the way, lost sight of the people inside the plot. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: One highly unlikely circumstance after another become laughable, preventing you from being moved by the family tragedies depicted. They beg for tears, but a script this chock-full of holes is unlikely to elicit the desired effect. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Fortunately for first-time director Alison Eastwood, Rails & Ties is populated by three sensitive actors who tread carefully through Micky Levy's anachronistic script. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: [Director Alison] Eastwood has the advantage of two very fine actors, Kevin Bacon and Marcia Gay Harden, who have the ability to lift the most mediocre of material into another realm. Read more