| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 4, 2005

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 12, 2004

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 17, 2004

Mezcla de serie negra "a la francesa" con estudio srdido sobre la maternidad, Betty Fisher posee la estructura cinematogrfica que debe tener una pelcula que entrecruza historias como si fueran piezas de un collage que, al final, se juntan.

| Sep 13, 2003

A captivating story.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 4, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 25, 2003

A pleasant enough valentine to Rendell's The Tree of Hands, if a story that deals with child abuse and sexual obsession could be described in those terms.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Like a Tarantino movie with heart, Alias Betty is richly detailed, deftly executed and utterly absorbing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 14, 2003

This is pretty dicey material. But some unexpected zigs and zags help.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2003

An ingenious and often harrowing look at damaged people and how families can offer either despair or consolation.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 30, 2003

Miller is playing so free with emotions, and the fact that children are hostages to fortune, that he makes the audience hostage to his swaggering affectation of seriousness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 3, 2003

Sharp psychological thriller...about mothers and children.

| Original Score: B | Jan 3, 2003

Either a fascinating study of the relationship between mothers and their children or a disturbing story about sociopaths and their marks.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2002

Some of what happens in Alias Betty is highly improbable. Yet Miller and his excellent cast sell the story by not overplaying their hands.

| Dec 19, 2002

Understated, elegant meditation on motherhood, obligation and coincidence, all wrapped up in the form of an urban thriller.

| Original Score: B | Dec 13, 2002

The story pulls us in almost immediately -- and the style and cast keep us hooked.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 13, 2002

If this movie were a book, it would be a page-turner, you can't wait to see what happens next.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 13, 2002

Claude Miller airs out a tight plot with an easy pace and a focus on character drama over crime-film complications.

| Original Score: A | Nov 29, 2002

Miller tells this very compelling tale with little fuss or noise, expertly plucking tension from quiet.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 29, 2002