Its plot contrivances beautifully justified by its minimalism.

| Feb 13, 2020

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 1, 2005

Moland ... has a fine eye for landscapes, but an even surer touch with actors.

Full Review | Oct 1, 2002

The movie is to be admired for refusing to romanticize alcoholism and for finding, in its bleak story, much humor and emotion.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 18, 2002

Contrived or not, anything that stirs raw emotions as Aberdeen does is worth a viewing.

Full Review | Original Score: 74/100 | Jun 14, 2002

A gripping film about the tattered ties of familial love that matter even to ferociously wayward and addicted individuals.

| May 8, 2002

A strangely lyrical tale of addiction and family distance.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 30, 2002

Evokes the long, lonesome noir tableaux of American painter Edward Hopper.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 22, 2002

The acting alone can't fill the motivational gaps.

Full Review | Apr 13, 2002

Hans Petter Moland avoids the usual movie cliches of addiction and abuse in his fierce, discomforting portraits...

| Original Score: B | Mar 29, 2002

Grips us precisely because its actors are so utterly absorbed in their roles, so unfettered and nakedly expressive.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 14, 2002

The material is treated with such brutal honesty and the performances are so strong that it actually makes what should be stale material look fresh.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 8, 2002

For all its attempts at bending the rules, Aberdeen still comes off as frustratingly conventional.

| Jan 18, 2002

An uncompromising family tale, one that's dark but lyrical and moving in its rendering of the ties that bind even the most dysfunctional families, despite valiant efforts to destroy them.

Full Review | Jan 11, 2002

It's a twisted, very human ride where the remarkable, effortless acting of both Headey and Skarsgard is rich with sympathy, heartbreak and morbid humor.

| Jan 4, 2002

Miraculously manages to sidestep easy manipulation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 3, 2002

The people who made the Scottish Aberdeen could have saved themselves some trouble if they'd come to America and watched a couple weeks' worth of 온라인카지노추천 movies.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2001

Under the guiding hand of co-writer-director Hans Petter Moland, the leads offer beautifully realized performances.

| Original Score: B | Dec 4, 2001

The characters, irritating as they can be at first, grow on you as they grow up.

| Nov 9, 2001

[A] frank father-daughter drama.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 20, 2001