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Critical Consensus

Dueling Critics
starstarstarstar Rob Blackwelder - SPLICED Online
starstarstarstar Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times
starstarstarstar Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune
starstarstarstar James Berardinelli - ReelViews
starstarstar Stephen Holden - NY Times
starstarstar Kenneth Turan - LA Times
starstarstar Wesley Morris - SF Examiner
starstarstar Mike Clark - USA Today
starstarstar John Hartl - Seattle Times
starstarstar Jay Carr - Boston Globe
starstar Tom Keogh - Film.com
starstar Todd McCarthy - Variety
starstar Owen Gleiberman - EW
starstar Maitland McDonagh - TV Guide
starstar Rod Dreher - NY Post

“Character study so engrossing, intelligent and intellectually rewarding that by 60 minutes into the movie I was already antsy to see it a second time”

- Rob Blackwelder

“[Director John Sayles] drops the bottom out with a lunatic plot turn that seems to have come from another movie entirely”

- Rod Dreher

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A budding romance between a nightclub singer and a man struggling with his past is tested when, along with her daughter, they find themselves in the Alaska wilderness. Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, Kris Kristofferson. Director: John Sayles (1999, R)
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