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

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    The film is effective in its intimate moments as well as its violent set pieces, and it could attract audiences, primarily because of Spacek's superb performance. Read full review

  • 50
    Christian Science Monitor |

    The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    A respectable and fairly decent movie. Read full review

  • 42
    The Onion A.V. Club | Noel Murray

    All the performers are fine--even the miscast Romijn--but they're still too much like actors playing dress-up. Read full review

  • 42
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The story is as impersonal as it is labored. Read full review

  • 30
    Austin Chronicle |

    The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek. Read full review

  • 30
    Village Voice |

    Added to the general torpidity and twangy tropes of this Southern family drama is the discomfort of watching a natural actor (Garity) force it. Read full review

  • 20
    New York Daily News | Joe Neumaier

    Only natural spitfire Spacek, as the pickup-driving mom of the land, feels fresh. There's even a mouthy kid Garity is "taking care of" - guess whose son he is? Read full review

  • 20
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Feels like a movie whose story was slapped together during filming. Its three phases -- Southern pastorale, Sudsville and Kablooie -- don't really connect. Read full review

  • 20
    Variety | Ronnie Scheib

    Moore and Hill's script plunges Spacek in a mawkish stew of banality and improbability composed of bits and pieces of earlier roles. Read full review

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