Away From Her

Anyone who could read Munro’s original story and think they could make a film of it, and then make a great film, deserves a certain awe.Read Full Review »

Rarely has love at any age been depicted so honestly on screen. For such a fully realized portrait to be created by a 28-year-old first-time director is even more remarkable.Read Full Review »

For anyone who grew up worshiping at the shrine of Julie Christie, the notion that she could be playing a white-haired woman drifting into senility is a jolt to the system. But her radiance, beauty and talent are undiminished: she's hauntingly, heartbreakingly good.Read Full Review »

Poignant, wise and unafraid -- just the sort of film for a young person, or any person, for that matter, to make.Read Full Review »

It's a precociously assured and mature work, at once humble and bold, that keeps faith with Munro's precise, graceful prose while tailoring its linear progression into shapely cinematic form.Read Full Review »

I can't remember the last time the movies yielded up a love story so painful, so tender and so true.Read Full Review »

A heartbreaking elegy to mature love that honors the lovers and the long, neurodegenerative tango that is their last.Read Full Review »

Does the finest job of any film in painting a believable portrait of aging, capturing the sadness, confusion, anxiety and defiance of the early stages of dementia.Read Full Review »

With a tranquil fearlessness, it goes beyond the death of memory, to see what might be found in the unexplored country beyond. The answer is both frightening and comforting: More love. Unspecified love. Universal love.Read Full Review »

All the acting is first-rate -- Dukakis gives major dimensions to a supporting role. And Christie, a Sixties screen goddess in "Darling" and "Doctor Zhivago," shows that her spirit and grace are eternal. She's a beauty. So is the movie.Read Full Review »