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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Acting doesn't get more personal, or much greater. Read full review

  • 80
    Los Angeles Times | Manohla Dargis

    A wonderfully eccentric piece of filmmaking -- to demand it cohere to formula would be to miss the point. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    There isn't any kind of dance you can compare to Robert Duvall's latest as an actor/director, though a slo-mo minuet might come close. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    The movie is not quite successful. It is too secretive about its heart. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Duvall missteps in trying to mesh suspense with a love story that also involves the woman (Kathy Baker) John J. lives with and her young daughter (Katherine Micheaux Miller), on whom he disturbingly dotes. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    At heart, ridiculous -- ludicrous in its conception and silly in its spectacle. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    If Mr. Duvall's finely textured performance is a testament to the power of good screen acting to lift a film above the mundane, the movie's many irritating tics demonstrate that he is much more at home in front of the camera than behind it. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Stephen Hunter

    Duvall is a great actor in the homestretch of a great career; it's hard to hold this trifle against him, and certainly nobody will. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Someone forgot to remind Duvall to write an ending. Read full review

  • 30
    Variety | David Stratton

    On just about every level -- as a thriller, as a romance and as a character study of a complicated man nearing the end of his professional life -- the film fails, and the meandering, sub-Cassavetes approach is likely to be a turnoff for all but the most indulgent viewers. Read full review

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