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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
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
The astonishingly inept finish could serve as a primer in screenwriting classes on how not to wind up a family drama. Read full review
A respectable and fairly decent movie. Read full review
All the performers are fine--even the miscast Romijn--but they're still too much like actors playing dress-up. Read full review
The story is as impersonal as it is labored. Read full review
The only thing saving Lake City from total ridiculousness is Spacek. Read full review
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
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
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
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