One of the documentary highlights of the 2009 Indianapolis International Film Festival.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 26, 2020

The earnest documentary is filled with many small moments that are heartfelt.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 15, 2009

plucks every heartstring but never in a manipulative or maudlin way.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 12, 2009

Both a moving testament to the elderly folks who meet the troops and an interesting look at the troops themselves.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 2, 2009

It is straightforward work. Yet over time, it becomes clearly, steadfastly about the existential.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2009

A poignant and lovingly constructed documentary ... and, even though it doesn't wear its politics on its sleeve, it is quite a patriotic picture.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 1, 2009

Watching them issue hugs produces an involuntary response. You want to hug them, too.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 27, 2009

This is a nice documentary about nice people who are doing a nice thing.

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 17, 2009

I can't recall when I last noticed such a lovely and distinct color palette used in a documentary...a poetic reflection on man facing his mortality.

| Original Score: A | Aug 17, 2009

Bring your handkerchiefs.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 14, 2009

These remarkable individuals contribute to a story that is not just indescribably moving but is a timeless metaphor for our country.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 27, 2009

A heartfelt, mildly fascinating documentary that lacks sufficient insight to keep you thoroughly intrigued and enlightened.

| Original Score: 5.9/10 | Jul 19, 2009

Contains more useful, homespun philosophizing and genuine sentiment than a year's worth of narrative films. That it's so well made is a bonus.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Although it has affecting moments, the film can't quite decide whether it's about aging or about the effects of war on the home front, and its modest scale is more appropriate for 온라인카지노추천 than the big screen.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 17, 2009

The Way We Get By stays focused on the greeters' mix of loneliness and determination, the pleasure of feeling needed and the pain of growing old.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 17, 2009

Unfailingly modest and profoundly humane.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2009

Aron Gaudet's film rages with quiet dignity against the dying of the light.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2009

The Way We Get By is neither pro- nor anti-war; it's a somber study of perpetually unsettled lives.

| Original Score: B- | Jul 16, 2009

Though Aron Gaudet's documentary never quite captures the relieved atmosphere of these homecomings, it does acknowledge the dark side of a cheery platitude: those on both sides of the divide are in need of healing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 15, 2009

Gaudet has a hard time extending his material to feature length.

| Jul 15, 2009