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

| Oct 30, 2017

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

| Sep 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 story is as meandering as it is self-indulgent.

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

The dusty backdrop evokes a palpable sense of transience and the lingering past, but there's ultimately very little beneath the gesturing.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 6, 2006

With its wonderful veteran cast, its heart on its sleeve, and a love for the landscape that suffuses its technique, Don't Come Knocking is a peculiar but rewarding escape.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 6, 2006

Superb supporting performances from Polley and Baulk go some way to making up for our hero's lesser qualities.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 6, 2006

Sam Shepard, an actor of increasingly bimbo-ish narcissism, gives another tiresome, cowboy-hat-wearing performance in a monumentally boring and conceited film.

| Original Score: 1/5 | May 6, 2006

Spence has much in common with Shepard and Wenders. They seem equally bewildered about what to do, other than spending nearly two hours demonstrating that Spence is a self-pitying fool.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Suffers badly from an emotional aimlessness.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2006

Don't Come Knocking isn't noticeably relevant or insightful, even if you're able to suspend disbelief long enough to buy the idea of a western movie star in the 21st Century.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 21, 2006

The kind of movie you stretch out in, wander around, and -- like the characters onscreen -- just let happen to you.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 20, 2006

It degenerates into one of those scream-o-ramas, an emotional hellzapoppin', where everybody tries to make everybody else cry.

| Apr 13, 2006

As arresting as the images are, Shepard's clunky, soap-opera banter brings most everything, and everyone, crashing down to earth.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 7, 2006

Shards of honesty pierce the action, true little moments that wound or heal a weak man in a flawed story.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 7, 2006

A moving film that hangs with you like a favorite vacation to red-rock country.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 7, 2006

Burdened with uneven acting and portentous dialogue, the film has one important saving grace. Franz Lustig's cinematography exquisitely captures the grandeur and loneliness of the American West.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 7, 2006

Don't Come Knocking finally doesn't work for me, because instead of embodying its themes it seems to be regarding them from outside, with awe, as if it is the high school production of itself.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 6, 2006

There's something a little absurd about this story, but for me, it's endearingly goofy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 6, 2006

[A] big-hearted failure of a film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 24, 2006