Miss Burstyn is the Oscar winner, and Juno star Ellen Page is getting billing beyond her screen time as the girlfriend of one of Hagar's sons, but it's newcomer Miss Horne's performance that gives the movie its soul.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 13, 2018

For my taste, everything about The Stone Angel is too nailed-down and on-the-nose.

| Dec 15, 2017

Watching The Stone Angel is not a chore. And the ending is pure, classy melodrama-it's totally overblown, and nothing less than satisfying.

| Aug 21, 2017

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

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 18, 2008

A tastefully reverent, fundamentally sincere treatment of Margaret Laurence's 1964 Manitoba-based novel, a staple for Canada's 12th graders.

| Oct 18, 2008

A perfectly respectable, solidly-made film which, beyond the expert performance by the always reliable Ellen Burstyn, has unfortunately little to recommend it.

Full Review | Oct 18, 2008

Left me feeling respectfully indifferent, as if I'd been served a nutritious meal that was only fleetingly satisfying.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 25, 2008

The only way to enjoy Kari Skogland's epic portrait of a miserable 90-year- woman named Hagar (Ellen Burstyn) is to reframe it as Scary Movie for weepies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 24, 2008

Far less would have been much more, though the geriatric protagonist's salty sexual wit and impulse to share a joint with a passing stranger, spice up the often dreary chronological procession of family episodes.

| Jul 12, 2008

Despite a terrific lead performance by Ellen Burstyn, Kari Skogland's epic The Stone Angel is a lesson in the perils of trying to cram a hefty Canadian novel that spans decades into a movie running just under two hours.

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

Writer-director Kari Skogland adapts a beloved Canadian novel gracefully and with plenty of spunk, the same way its main character moves through the world from cradle to grave.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2008

Although talented newcomer Christine Horne is ideal as the younger Hagar, letting Burstyn play the character at around 50, despite best-effort lighting, was not the wisest choice.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2008

Old lady on the road takes a memory trip, giving Burstyn a chance to shine.

| Jul 11, 2008

It's not a great movie, but Burstyn fans shouldn't miss her subtle performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 11, 2008

Overacted, underwritten, and with flashback cues so lazy the characters may as well just say, "I remember when...," the film feels like The Notebook II.

| Jul 11, 2008

A film of tightly assembled bits and pieces that don't fit comfortably together despite clever dashes of magical realism connecting past and present.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 11, 2008

Events pass by in a muddled rush as the intimate character study of the page gives way to a hollowed-out on screen portrait.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 10, 2008

A stubbornly affecting drama that's strongest in its quieter moments.

Full Review | Jul 10, 2008

Ellen Burstyn deserves another Oscar nomination for this compelling drama.

Full Review | Jul 8, 2008