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

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

Diane is a sublime puzzle of a movie, resolving itself without completely yielding its secrets.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2019

The reason Diane (the film) exists is not to propose and then solve a mystery, but to engage with Diane (the person).

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2019

"Diane" is a sharp, attuned, quiet stunner that underplays at every turn.

| Original Score: A | Apr 12, 2019

"Diane" affords Martin, Parsons and company the chance to do honest, low-keyed work with material worth the effort.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 11, 2019

[It's] a remarkable film that will see Diane through many losses, and some gains, with her to the last.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 11, 2019

It's a rarity, and a real pleasure, to find a movie that presents without condescension rural working-class people, especially women.

| Original Score: A- | Apr 8, 2019

Place manages to twist herself physically and emotively into such pretzel-like knots I was astonished by the emotional magnitude of what it was she was doing.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 8, 2019

While "Diane" is perhaps 96 of the most depressing minutes on film this year, its quiet honesty is compelling. treating aging and death with a respect to the inevitability of both.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2019

The more adventurous or open-hearted may step into this film and find a kind of translucent everyday poetry.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 3, 2019

[A] naturalistic portrait of service and self-sacrifice by way of a quietly astonishing title performance by Mary Kay Place.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 3, 2019

With "Diane," as in life, it feels like nothing's going on, but everything's going on.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 2, 2019

The sharp-edged bonds that hold a family and a community together are examined intimately but vaguely in this lyrical melodrama by the writer and director Kent Jones.

| Apr 1, 2019

Diane is consistently absorbing but low-key, that won't appeal to some people . It's a compassionate character study that showcases one of the most endearing of all contemporary actresses, and that's what makes it well worth seeing

| Mar 29, 2019

A meticulously detailed portrait of the type of woman who never gets a movie made about her.

| Mar 29, 2019

Kent has assembled a superb group of character actors here, who tell lived-in stories with extraordinary sensitivity and grace.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 29, 2019

What looks at first like a solid, well-carpentered exercise in downbeat indie realism ends up, by dint of its unexpected tonal and temporal leaps and sudden formal ruptures, in less easily definable territory.

| Mar 28, 2019

The movie is populated by people we seldom see in mainstream films, so seldom that we may not remember the pleasure we've been missing.

| Mar 28, 2019

Jones fills her existential space with a bracing, though never unfeeling, inquiry into what it feels like to confront the steady drip of accumulating pain, and loss, and no longer being needed as we age.

| Mar 28, 2019