The sheer visual impact of In a Dream is breathtaking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 3, 2009

Call it forgiveness or codependency, but this highly personal film speaks to all of us in the universal languages of art and love.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2009

Because Jeremiah lacks the investigatory zeal to pursue the subplots, which also include his father's madness and his older brother's drug addiction, this lovely film is more evocative than illuminating.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 14, 2009

The eclectic beauty of Isaiah's complex, labor-intensive art form deserves more process-oriented dissection.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 23, 2009

Isaiah's work frequently rewards the camera's roving attention, but his self-absorption and lack of self-insight make him a sad subject even for as forgiving a study as In a Dream.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 17, 2009

The tedious documentary In a Dream tells you much more than you could ever want to know about an ob scure Philadelphia artist called Isaiah Zagar.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 10, 2009

Even in an era of 24-hour confessional 온라인카지노추천, this look into complex emotions is gripping.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2009

Bursting with vivid home movies and loving appreciations of Isaiah's artwork -- frenzied drawings and monumental mosaics in tile and mirror, many of which now beautify his Philadelphia neighborhood -- In a Dream abounds in visual pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 10, 2009

What's onscreen is vivid and compelling, but the film only seems to tell part of the story.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 9, 2009

The movie feels as if its creator is simply too close to his subject to cover all the angles; perhaps a director without blood bonds might have managed a less claustrophobic look at the clan.

| Original Score: 3/6 | Apr 8, 2009

Where most documentarians would rest on the laurels of a great subject and riveting present-tense drama, director Jeremiah Zagar has observed too much of his father's creative logic to cheat us with artless hagiography.

| Apr 8, 2009

An involving, sometimes painfully intimate piece that's as much about living with mental illness as it is about a rather remarkable artistic vision.

Full Review | Apr 1, 2009

In a Dream captures a family imploding. Their lives are laid bare, in broken bits, like the ceramic that Isaiah uses for his art, and they come together in In a Dream with sadness and beauty, rage and insight.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2008