So we have the Oscar-winning poet laureate's son wasting his and our time in a flower-power-hangover movie that might have been made 25 years ago, though better, by Hal Ashby.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 7, 2018

Doesn't succeed in everything it sets out to do, but as a statement about the death rattle of 60s counterculture it's thoughtful and affecting.

| Feb 8, 2010

A sad tale of isolation and love.

| Apr 29, 2009

The Ballad of Jack and Rose, like the community it elucidates, is not perfect. Like the people who try so desperately to make the most of the world in which they live, it is full of flaws, inconsistencies, and shortcomings.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Feb 28, 2008

Belle uses her blank, doll-like beauty to unnerving effect: she has the vulnerability--and the amorality--of an unbroken colt. Keener, who usually plays brittle, angry urban women, has never been so touching.

| Nov 1, 2007

A disjointed collection of characters whose dysfunctional behavior modes only reinforce the aimlessness of the narrative.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2007

It is the harbinger of great films to come from an exceptional screenwriter and director.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 31, 2006

Belle is equally good, proving that she's a real movie star in the making - there's a sort of feral energy to Rose that's genuinely scary and disturbingly unpredictable.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 30, 2006

It's about two-thirds a great movie and worth it for those two-thirds.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jun 8, 2005

Generally it works, thanks to the terrific performances.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 13, 2005

A fable of the end of innocence, complete with such symbols of paradise lost as a snake (a fugitive copperhead) and a toppled playhouse.

Full Review | Original Score: '3/4' | May 13, 2005

Ballad wears out one tale before its end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 6, 2005

[A] strange blend of a daughter's coming of age and a father's advancing toward death.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 5, 2005

The always-superb Day-Lewis and bright newcomer Belle almost redeem this pretentious, improbable scenario. But almost isn't enough.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Apr 29, 2005

Poignant, melancholic and a little strange, The Ballad of Jack and Rose is an effective rendering of the loss of innocence and the acceptance that some ideals can't survive in a modern world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 28, 2005

Rebecca Miller's third feature begins as a two-character drama, and it would have been so much better if it had stayed that way.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 28, 2005

Murky, disturbing stuff that most of the time does better at repelling viewers than compelling them to stick around to see what happens next.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 27, 2005

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2005

The entire movie seems to be suffering from the same suffocating disease as Jack.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 22, 2005