CRITICAL CONSENSUS

Michael Wilmington - Chicago Tribune

Michael Booth - Denver Post

William Arnold - Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Rob Blackwelder - SPLICEDwire

Colin Covert - startribune.com

James Berardinelli - ReelViews

John Anderson - Newsday

A.O. Scott - NY Times

Ty Burr - Boston Globe

Robert Denerstein - Rocky Mountain News

Ken Fox - TV Guide Online

Kevin Courrier - Boxoffice Magazine

Jean Oppenheimer - Hollywood Reporter

Eleanor Ringel Gillespie - AccessAtlanta

Mike Clark - USA Today

DUELING CRITICS

"Superbly crafted in all departments. It's the sort of movie -- intelligent, humane, well-acted and based on rich source material -- that we don't get often enough and therefore sometimes don't appreciate enough"

- Michael Wilmington

"It's problematic enough that the movie's lead characters are unlikable. But worse is the blackening of The Human Stain with a trite and forced plot, uninteresting digressions and clunky direction"

- Mike Clark