This multigenerational family history has enough gripping moments to hold your attention, but ultimately it leaves you frustrated by its failure to braid subplots and characters into a gripping narrative.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Tim Grierson
Despite its cutesy comic-relief digressions and overdone solemnity, The Stone Angel finds its way past tonal inconsistencies to a moving conclusion that doesn't romanticize death.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Gary Goldstein
Burstyn gets to use her full bag of tricks to bring this crabby, hard-knocks survivor to life.
Though she's aged 15 unflattering years, forced into awful old lady clothes and her character teeters on unsympathetic, the actress manages a rich, vanity-free performance, perhaps her best since "Requiem for a Dream."Read Full Review »
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