Film Comment
"...[The film] features a terrific performance by Paul Franklin Dano..." 03/01/2001 p.63-5Rolling Stone
"...[Cox] gives a knockout performance..." 03/15/2001 p.85-6 Movieline's Hollywood Life
"...Haunting....This remarkable film honors the complexities of an explosive situation, and that's an audacious achievement..." 09/01/2001 p.35-6 Rolling Stone
"...It's a powerful and provocative achievement from a first-time filmmaker of enormous promise..." 09/27/2001 p.73-4 Chicago Sun-Times
"...It sees both of its characters without turning them into caricatures....Brian Cox has been a superb actor in more than 50 movies..." 09/21/2001 p.29 Total Film
"...A huge amount rests on Cox's shoulders, and he uncorks his best work in years....The kids, too, are excellent..." 12/01/2002 p.112 USA Today
"...Cox's widely praised performance is a marvel of underplaying..." 06/07/2002 p.6E Washington Post 8 of 10
...gripping, troubling and deftly acted... the duet between Cox's hulking menace and Dano's diminutive hero is as tender as it is terrifying, and we watch with a mixture of compassion and revulsion. - Rita Kempley
Salon.com 7 of 10
...it's Cox's performance that is remarkable here... Cox makes [the character] plausible and horrifyingly sympathetic... It's a measure of how well the movie works that its most potentially disturbing scene is also its gentlest... - Charles Taylor
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