| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Though Canvas may not deviate much from the formula followed by so many other movies about families imperiled by health crises, it's unusually perceptive about the ways that loved ones process (or fail to process) the resulting stress.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 12, 2008

It's like a public service announcement with dialogue.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 11, 2008

Writer-director Joseph Greco makes a nice feature-film debut telling a true, disturbing story about a 10-year-old boy struggling to cope with a schizophrenic mother.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2007

Canvas just doesn't sketch a sufficiently vivid portrait.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2007

Canvas is worth seeing for the acting, but the disease-of-the-week conventions and hackneyed visuals pretty well knock the wind out of its sails.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2007

First-time filmmaker Joseph Greco draws on personal experience for this devastating yet honest portrait of an ordinary Florida family.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Though Harden has the showier role, a subdued Pantoliano is the movie's real star. Sometimes, the quietest performances are the most powerful.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Canvas is a serious film about mental illness and a sentimental heartwarmer, and succeeds in both ways.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2007

Canvas is a movie that rings emotionally true, despite structural contrivances and dim, washed-out color.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 12, 2007

Despite its admirable qualities, Canvas fizzles and falls into cliche.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2007

Greco's sincerity is so palpable that the frequent uplift feels deserved, but with just-passable filmmaking and the demeaning score, Canvas falls somewhere between powerful indie and made-for-온라인카지노추천 diversion.

| Oct 9, 2007

Writer-director Joseph Greco's refusal to explain the roots of Mary's madness gives John's desperate desire to summon happier days a bewitching poignancy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 7, 2007

An unusually sensitive take on schizophrenia.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2007

Auds will experience the joy of discovery in Greco's fact-based drama -- not just in its perspective on schizophrenia and the effect of the disease on one Florida family, but in Joe Pantoliano's cliche-demolishing performance.

Full Review | Sep 4, 2007