Moonlight Mile

Not many movies know that truth. Moonlight Mile is based on it.Read Full Review »

It's a combination of good story, nice moments and appealing texture.Read Full Review »

A dazzling true-life comedy that might be the funniest movie about grief ever made.Read Full Review »

The film drips with honest emotion and confusion.Read Full Review »

The first half of Moonlight Mile feels like the runaway trailer for a movie that can't wait to jerk your tears. But to quote Joe in a moment of epiphany, there's a ''truth enema'' out there, and, boy, it really brings this movie around.Read Full Review »

Though its conclusion is too tidily therapeutic, and though elements of its story strain credibility, Moonlight Mile has an understated, lived-in quality and a wry, unforced sense of the absurd.Read Full Review »

The film is full of sharp acting and home truths, but its ambition to be different finally surrenders to its need to be loved.Read Full Review »

Gyllenhaal, in the pivotal role, brings a scruffy, boyish charm to the proceedings, but his big scenes with Hoffman and Sarandon are one-sided - he's not in the same league, and comes off as a bit of a cipher.Read Full Review »

All the shell-shocked wryness, irredeemable remorse, and unaccountable will to survive that the movie attempts to embody are realized in Gyllenhaal, and the actor makes it possible to root for Moonlight Mile despite its flaws.Read Full Review »

What's on screen is too honest and from the heart to totally dismiss but too slick and contrived to completely embrace. This is a film that cares about genuine emotion but also wants to tame it, to tidy it up and keep it confined to quarters.Read Full Review »