“…engages in an empathetic project of a rare kind.”

“Murphy has the eyes of a terrified god.”

“Delicately drifts between romance and regret…”

“…gives early teen life, in all its complexity, a burnished reverence.”

“A charitable reading of Master Gardener would be to say that it feels unfinished and unformed.”

“Bergman has an uncharacteristic eagerness…”

“…offers mesmerizing moments when something indefinable penetrates the mundanity.”

“Phoenix gives a rigor mortis performance.”

“…suggests a rot in the human psyche that’s too far gone.”

“…a movie that seems to have given up on the very idea of genuine human connection, even as it aches for exactly that.”