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

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

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

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

| Jun 25, 2014

Lance Edmands' fragile, arthouse-bound debut stands in direct contrast with its weary, working-class characters and the subzero Maine winter against which their story unfolds -- a mournful throwback to more poetically inclined times.

| Jun 25, 2014

The characters' personal struggles are so singular that this feels like a collection of vignettes instead of a continuous film.

| Oct 11, 2013

Undoubtably a remarkable achievement, especially for a first-time filmmaker.

| Original Score: 8.7/10 | Apr 30, 2013

Knitted-together by its sense of place and lived-in performances, yet unraveled by anemic false melodrama and overbearing music.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 24, 2013