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The Girl in the Park Reviews
An overwrought melodrama with bold intentions but poor execution.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008
Essentially about loss, guilt and regret, Auburn's film also examines Julia's increasingly unhealthy obsession with her surrogate daughter, which gives it an air of uneasy tension that never amounts to much.
| Original Score: 3/6 | Dec 5, 2008
The film stretches credibility a little with the coincidences that could yet make Louise the missing girl, but gives the actors plenty to work with.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008
while there is a lot to like in Auburn's tightly focused film, it never fully pulls together.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008
Auburn leaves too many dramatic holes and blows his potentially explosive 'Festen' moment by allowing a confrontation over dinner to fizzle into anti-climax.
| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 5, 2008
The kindest adjectives to describe Weaver's performance would be 'overwrought' and 'unsympathetic'.
| Original Score: 1/5 | Dec 5, 2008
Weaver's still unresolved grief, subtly hits every note that Changeling plinked or plonked like a honky-tonk hokum artist.
| Dec 5, 2008
There's a prissy self-congratulation about early parts of David Auburn's family-bereavement drama, though it got to me eventually.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 5, 2008
It is not without its problems, but this is, at the very least, an attention-grabbing first feature with a fine example of ensemble playing from its cast.
Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 5, 2008
Impressively directed, sharply written and emotionally involving drama with a terrific central performance from Sigourney Weaver.
| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 4, 2008
Wryly amusing, achingly poignant and pleasingly understated, with a stand-out performance from Weaver.
| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 1, 2008
| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 12, 2008
...a sporadically overwrought but mostly compelling film...
| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2007
Auds can see what Auburn was aiming for, but his portrait of grieving and wishful thinking doesn't connect emotionally. He's not helped by Weaver's brittle, unsympathetic perf, which borders on caricature.
| Sep 11, 2007