A beautiful character study acted superbly, COME EARLY MORNING is an uplifting winner.

| Nov 7, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 20, 2008

Judd surely deserves the lion's share of kudos for the movie's success...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 28, 2008

custom made for Judd; she's brilliant

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 14, 2008

With an honest and starkly minimalist approach, Adams paints a vivid, often painful portrait of a woman who has nothing to look forward to except the next one-night stand.

| Jul 10, 2007

What Come Early Morning does is create an utterly convincing central character, and surround her with a milieu and backstory that is sincere and convincing.

| Mar 1, 2007

Overall, the film lacks energy and the plot has no driving force.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 24, 2007

The best thing about Adams' film is its unhurried, casual naturalism.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 18, 2007

The writing and directing by Joey Lauren Adams express an admirable naturalness and eschews rose-tinted solutions.

| Dec 29, 2006

...nothing less than a minor key wonder of a film, a character study of novelistic complexity with a sure sense of place and purpose that seems akin to movies made before Hollywood discovered its corporate destiny.

Full Review | Original Score: 93/100 | Dec 17, 2006

Subdued and deliberate, but also sensitive and quietly moving. And it gives Judd a chance to shine as a real actress again.

| Original Score: B | Dec 1, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Nov 25, 2006

If and when Come Early Morning ever resurfaces on DVD, order it immediately-and while you're at it, order Chasing Amy too, if you haven't already seen it, and enjoy a dandy double feature with two country girls of enormous talent.

Full Review | Nov 22, 2006

This is a quietly powerful film about small-town Southern living that avoids all the usual clichs and makes us feel as if we're dropping in on real lives in mid-stream.

Full Review | Nov 20, 2006

In fact this film is generally about nothing. There's an attempt to show some growth in some relationships, but there really isn't any and we're left where we started.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2006

| Original Score: B | Nov 18, 2006

The baby-voiced costar of Chasing Amy proves an effortless filmmaker, turning Lucy's journey into the awakening of a soul.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 15, 2006

It's a Southern story, but not cloying in the way that many Hollywood versions of the rustic South are.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 13, 2006

In Come Early Morning, Ashley Judd delivers her most natural screen performance since Ruby in Paradise, the film that pushed her toward stardom in 1993.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 13, 2006