It's a pity Bluebird never quite manages to provide the real emotional payoff that it's seemingly working towards, but it's still an interesting portrait of loss and guilt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 13, 2017

We can't allow movies the quality of Bluebird to fly under the radar.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 28, 2015

If you're willing to enter the world of downbeat northern gloom in Bluebird, it's a delicate and affecting drama with grace notes of mystery and redemption.

| Feb 27, 2015

Shooting on 35mm, Jody Lee Lipes makes the harshness look beautiful and unforgiving, and in a film filled with strong performances, Morton's work stands out.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 27, 2015

Amy Morton gives a solid performance and is the strongest element of "Bluebird."

| Original Score: B- | Feb 27, 2015

Edmands' scenario provides plenty of opportunity for narrative twists and social commentary, but these aren't the areas of interest for the filmmaker. Rather, he's interested in the people ...

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 27, 2015

On one level, "Bluebird" is a bitter slice of life about hardy, stoic New Englanders battling the elements and a crumbling regional economy. On another, it's a poetic meditation on the human struggle to make sense of a cruel and indifferent universe.

| Feb 26, 2015

Drama about how a tragic incident in a working-class Maine town reverberates in the lives of six people.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2015

The dangling ending won't appeal to everyone, but nobody makes a movie like "Bluebird" with that in mind, anyway.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 26, 2015

What a shame that the first film to star venerable stage actress Amy Morton is this terminally arty drama.

| Feb 26, 2015

Earnestly well-intentioned and doggedly uncommercial, this is the kind of film that's worth rooting for in principle, but a solid cast and evocative 35 mm photography can't compensate for its slightly stultifying familiarity.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 26, 2015

Lance Edmands is a talent to watch for years to come.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 26, 2015

A gloomy and self-consciously bleak and cold drama, Bluebird is driven by a series of strong performances that give the modest and inhospitable drama it might otherwise lack.

| Feb 25, 2015

The palpable sense of eddying fracture in the frosty reaches is heightened by brilliant location shooting by crack cinematographer Jody Lee Lipes.

| Feb 25, 2015

Edmands [...] has pulled together an impressive acting ensemble that brings to life three-dimensional characters and the frozen, claustrophobic world from which they emerge.

| Feb 25, 2015

A poor man's "Sweet Hereafter" features Amy Morton's strong performance but is poorly photographed with occasionally incomprehensible dialogue.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 21, 2015

Remarkable slice of life regional economic crisis cinema. And class fate as a microcosm in one emotionally and financially drained town. In other words, more than just the story of a tragic accident - but about everything not accidental in class society.

| Jan 3, 2015

Amy Morton is a true revelation, delivering her finest acting performance of her career.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 26, 2014

Carefully shot, well-observed and featuring terrific performances... "Bluebird" is an affecting and moving examination of family, mothers, connectedness and the ripple effect of tragic consequences.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 25, 2014

Despite threatening to overload on melancholia, the modest film maintains emotional integrity through to its final note of hope.

| Jun 25, 2014