Poignant and sneaky good...

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 21, 2024

Mary Kay Place never goes for the jugular with any of the material, knowing full well how to make us lean in and feel something just by virtue of her beautiful stillness.

| Jan 10, 2022

Mundane and melancholic, a day-to-day sameness that is crushingly cyclical. And yet, there is comfort in the cycle.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 12, 2021

The clear-cut narrative of the film's first half blooms into something much more oblique, at times even surreal, diving into its lead's psyche and exploring the boundaries between who we are, who we were and who we will become.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 8, 2021

Never has a film so beautifully captured the myriad number of feelings a mother has as she avoids focusing on her own life and needs.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Nov 18, 2020

It's as good as anything that's come out so far in 2019.

| Oct 14, 2020

Simply a beautiful film.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 6, 2020

I find it soporific what I see in 'Diane', the first fiction feature film by director Kent Jones. I have no other way of saying it. Although there is a correct performance from Mary Kay Place. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jul 31, 2020

As Diane goes through her day-to-day life, the picture recontextualizes apparent flaws as hidden strengths.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 25, 2020

For decades Kent Jones has been one of the most eloquent and perceptive film critics in the U.S.; with this devastating chamber drama... he also proves himself to be a keen observer of psychology and American social mores.

| Mar 10, 2020

Similar to Alfonso Cuaron's Roma, Kent Jones' film takes a look at the life of a caregiver with an intimate yet depressing eye. Sadly, it is not as clear and as visionary as Cuaron's film.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 25, 2019

It's a very slow burn... But by the end, I feel that she had revealed these different layers and I thought it worked.

| Sep 24, 2019

Despite the strictly naturalistic register of most of the film, there are a few moments of near-surreal beauty...

| Aug 21, 2019

Diane is a rare thing: an unsentimental and honest indie film about the radical power of kindness.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2019

There's not a better movie in theaters than this sometimes-surreal, surprising, marvelously wise and humane one directed by Kent Jones.

| Jul 8, 2019

With a thoughtful touch, [Kent] Jones and his ensemble cast offer a highly relatable slice-of-life character study.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 30, 2019

The film's existential questions ultimately inspire one to sit up in the movie theatre and wonder, "Why am I here?"

| May 12, 2019

We usually expect that a film named after its protagonist will sooner or later reveal everything about that person, give us the whole woman; Diane, by contrast, comes in pieces

| May 10, 2019

Kent Jones, primarily known as a film critic, clearly understands what makes a good story and how best to tell it. There's not a false note in the movie, a point where you might think: "oh, no one actually would say that."

| May 9, 2019

Jones is less interested in narrative than he is in mood and tone. Many of the scenes in "Diane" are set-pieces, all featuring Diane doing her daily rounds... And in all this, actress Place is perfect.

| May 3, 2019