Despite the film's false notes, its balladlike moods ring true.

| Oct 30, 2017

The bitterness of the playwright's vision is expanded by the director's fascinated fondness for American culture

| Aug 30, 2009

Apart from an extraordinary scene of attempted reconciliation between Shepard and Lange "Don't Come Knocking" is an inflated drama that lies stagnate on the screen.

| Original Score: C | Apr 20, 2009

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 7, 2008

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| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Oct 3, 2006

[It has] a terrific sense of place, something missing from much contemporary US cinema.

| Sep 28, 2006

Wim Wenders y Sam Shepard (Paris, Texas) recuperan (en excelente fotografía y mejor música) una iconografía norteamericana al servicio de una historia sobre el desarraigo y la necesidad de recuperar vínculos largamente perdidos.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 26, 2006

... is so meandering it can make a sober viewer into a drunk.

| Original Score: C | Aug 24, 2006

The widescreen visual poetry of "Don't Come Knocking" seems less like inspiration and more like overcompensation.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 6, 2006

The story, jointly cooked up, is reasonable, if not their best, but Shepard's screenplay is a real disappointment, failing to lock into gear at any time.

| Jun 28, 2006

By the time we get to the point where the camera is endlessly circling Shepard sitting on a sofa in the middle of the street, it feels as if he and his director were making things up as they went along.

| Jun 24, 2006

...the long-awaited reunion of writer-actor Sam Shepard and German filmmaker Wim Wenders yields only mixed results.

Full Review | Jun 12, 2006

Emotionally arid and narratively lazy, the film is so tentative it seems to be evaporating before our very eyes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 2, 2006

The story is as meandering as it is self-indulgent.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 1, 2006

Potential filmgoers should read the title carefully. Then take the message heart.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | May 26, 2006

Aspires to be a story of redemption and discovery, but it's too undercooked to be either.

| Original Score: 4/10 | May 26, 2006

... the story ... isn't big enough to stand up to the characters who blow through it or to resist being overwhelmed by the geography on which it's set.

Full Review | Original Score: 78/100 | May 19, 2006

A sparse, rolling drama with some strong laughs that prods at a western movie star's surprising past.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2006

Though there are a few great moments from the supporting players, they can't compensate for the emotional doughnut at the center of the story: a selfish, inarticulate lump where a leading man should be.

| May 18, 2006

The narrative that unfolds in the wake of Spence's journey recalls Paris but walks too heavy for a character study to gel.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 6, 2006