Affliction

Nolte and Coburn are magnificent in this film, which is like an expiation or amends for abusive men. It is revealing to watch them in their scenes together--to see how they're able to use physical presence to sketch the history of a relationship.Read Full Review »

Affliction -- a beautiful bummer, a magnificent feel-bad movie -- is American filmmaking of a most rewarding order.Read Full Review »

Succeeds in finding something larger than one man's misery. It turns dark truthfulness into the cinematic sentiment most worth celebrating this season.Read Full Review »

Never has an actor embodied the passing down of violence and bitterness from father to son more powerfully.Read Full Review »

As chilly a spectacle as you're likely to see. It's like watching a comeback in an empty stadium.Read Full Review »

Rarely have a novelist and filmmaker been better matched.Read Full Review »

Affliction is a harsh experience, but the harshness isn't a matter of punishing the audience or of the director, Schrader, showing off his toughness: That unvarnished harshness is the very essence of the material.Read Full Review »

Affliction is for anyone willing to take the journey into the heart and soul of a troubled man on the edge.Read Full Review »

Schrader has never been one to coddle an audience, and this is as uncompromising a vision as he has given us.Read Full Review »

Like the bitter cold in which it's set, Affliction bites hard and true.Read Full Review »