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Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: The best efforts of the performers cannot authenticate a plot that no longer feels inevitable. It feels contrived. And the audience stays at a remove instead of entering someone else's nightmare. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Painful but illuminating. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: A deadly earnest and deadly dull psychological thriller. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: A hit-and-miss drama. Read more
Nathan Rabin, AV Club: It's a relentlessly downbeat, well-acted melodrama that's easy to admire, but intentionally impossible to enjoy. Read more
Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: An exercise in frustration and wasted opportunities. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The real problem with this movie isn't its trashy side. It's the creepy note of causal judgment that hangs over it concerning the potential nightmare of parental visitation and enforcer ex-wives. Read more
Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: Grief has rarely seemed so ordinary. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: It starts with devastation and closes, after a few reels of narrative dithering, with a climax of hairpin emotional turns and indisputable power. Read more
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Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Bad things happen and terrible choices are made in the very sad, very nerve-racking, very good melodrama Reservation Road. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: For all of the roiling emotion, it feels oddly flat, distant and one-dimensional. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: An arduous melodrama set in a high-tax-bracket corner of Connecticut. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Director Terry George tells this painful and complicated story well. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Unrelentingly bleak, the movie is nonetheless a riveting drama with some outstanding performances... Read more
Kyle Smith, New York Post: All of them [the cast] dazed with Oscarlust, aren't in on the joke they're telling. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: This movie probes your inner conscience without losing sight of its breathless entertainment value. Read more
Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: A film of distinguished performances that rise above a coincidence-riddled and perfunctory screenplay -- without redeeming it. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: A flawed presentation of compelling material and intriguing characters. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Reservation Road is all about the darkness that lurks in the hearts of men, and although it's dark in there, all right, the power of redemption is always a possibility. This dour, ponderous picture just can't show the way. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: There's a problem when you make a film so dark that Hotel Rwanda looks like a crowd-pleaser -- especially when the story asks filmgoers to leave their reasoning skills at home. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Reservation Road is a car wreck of a movie about an auto accident. It's designed as a psychological suspense film, but every character development and plot twist can be seen far in advance. It's a mystery with no guessing. Read more
Nell Minow, Chicago Sun-Times: In the elegaic, beautifully acted Reservation Road, both [Phoenix and Ruffalo] are trying to find a path toward wholeness and each will need the other to find it. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The major failure here is fear of the very emotions the movie purports to be about. Read more
Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Original and gripping. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: A dramatic situation that should be wrenching is mostly tedious in Reservation Road. Read more
Scott Foundas, Village Voice: Reservation Road is one of those movies where the characters suffer early and often. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: You know exactly where the story is going, and, dang, that's exactly where it goes. Read more