A low-key holiday drama that's refreshing not only because it lacks the big discovery melodrama of most similar movies but because it's entirely believable.Read Full Review »
75
ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
This engrossing blend of humor and heartbreak only hints at the causes, from betrayal to child abuse, of this family's dysfunction. Hang on. Attention is richly rewarded.Read Full Review »
70
Slate: David Edelstein
Has spasms of silliness that thaw things out delightfully. Davis plays Vartan's girlfriend as an irrepressible, sexed-up brat, and gives every line a little hop, skip, and jump.Read Full Review »
70
NewsWeek: B.J. Sigesmund
Stands as a wonderful ensemble piece not unlike Woody Allen's dramas "Interiors" and "September."Read Full Review »
70
LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kenneth Turan
It's a decorous film, conventionally well-made, but don't be fooled. Its emotional impact is considerable.Read Full Review »
60
The New York Times: Stephen Holden
Has some good performances (Ms. Moore's ongoing snit is a terrifically sustained bit of glowering), but it only barely begins to knit its self-pitying characters into a credible family unit. They are oddballs with attitude.Read Full Review »
50
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Denise Lanctot
The first-rate cast is wasted serving up this melodramatic turkey.Read Full Review »
50
Washington Post: Stephen Hunter
The film has a kind of echo-filled emptiness to it that some will take as profundity and others as mere emptiness.Read Full Review »
40
Salon.com: Charles Taylor
The Myth of Fingerprints is only 90 minutes long, but watching all this tasteful torment, you can't help thinking that if you were watching a Jewish family or an Italian one, the air would be cleared -- and you'd be out of the theater -- a hell of a lot quicker.Read Full Review »
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