A realistic drama that looks and feels as inevitably true and moving as a good documentary.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Michael O'Sullivan
Sternfeld has created a garden on film that opens up its blooms for us, not in the dark of the movie house, but long after we've left the theater.Read Full Review »
75
CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
The movie is not plot-driven, for which we must be thankful, because to force their feelings into a plot would be a form of cruelty. The whole point is that these lives have no plot.Read Full Review »
70
Slate: David Edelstein
I can't think of too many actors who could bring off Jim Winters. LaPaglia manages to convey, wordlessly, the man's inner struggle.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Kevin Thomas
Sternfeld's approach is rigorously minimalist, which is a plus since the Winters family is in no way extraordinary or distinctive.Read Full Review »
70
The New York Times: Lawrence Van Gelder
The boys, particularly Mr. Webber as Pete, are astonishingly good, and Ms. Monaghan, who looks like a slightly more tomboyish Liv Tyler, makes a deep impression in a minor role. Mr. LaPaglia, of the television series "Without a Trace," brings a tender gravity to the shell-shocked Jim.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Laura Sinagra
What makes Winter Solstice, a nice little Jersey vignette about a widower and his two teenage sons, so striking is writer-director Josh Sternfeld's respect for the verbal shorthand of family interaction.Read Full Review »
50
Boston Globe: Janice Page
Ultimately undercut by its fictional elements and its flat characters.Read Full Review »
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