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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
Succeeds in finding something larger than one man's misery. It turns dark truthfulness into the cinematic sentiment most worth celebrating this season. Read full review
Affliction -- a beautiful bummer, a magnificent feel-bad movie -- is American filmmaking of a most rewarding order. Read full review
Nolte and Coburn are magnificent in this film, which is like an expiation or amends for abusive men. It is revealing to watch them in their scenes together--to see how they're able to use physical presence to sketch the history of a relationship. Read full review
Never has an actor embodied the passing down of violence and bitterness from father to son more powerfully. Read full review
Rarely have a novelist and filmmaker been better matched. Read full review
Like the bitter cold in which it's set, Affliction bites hard and true. Read full review
Nolte, reinforced by the bleak discretion of Schrader's direction and a wonderful supporting cast, makes the most of the opportunity. Read full review
Schrader seems to understand these characters implicitly, and the result is probably the best film he has directed. Read full review
James Coburn plays father in what may be the best performance of his career. [30 December 1998, Life, p.3D] Read full review
The pervasive chill, ugly feelings and downward spiral of the narrative make this a work that requires an equally sober, serious-minded attitude on the part of the viewer. Read full review