Angelou manages to make the South a character with the ability to heal and mature.

| Jan 9, 2023

Maya Angelou's very deliberate blocking of the actors charges each movement and line of dialogue with emotion, and the expressive combinations of colors and textures in the settings convey a palpable sense of the environments.

| Jan 9, 2023

Director Maya Angelou, the celebrated author, makes an impressive filmmaking debut by pacing her story slowly enough to make Woodard's transformation credible.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 9, 2023

For a first feature, however, Down on the Delta serves as a good screen introduction to an important American presence.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 9, 2023

Even though it's free of stunts and sentimentality, the slow pace and loud, unambiguous morality, has a subtle, disappointing preachiness.

| Jan 9, 2023

Down in the Delta demonstrates that those who talk less, say more. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jan 6, 2023

Some of the characters take giant strides toward happiness, some take baby steps. Some don’t move at all. But the hope with which the movie leaves us is genuine.

| Original Score: A | Jan 5, 2023

The film serves up many clunky moments, in part the result of Angelou's green camerawork and the story's earnest attempt to cram in too many issues... As in Angela's verse, however, the themes of heritage and humanity resound.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2023

This is a big-hearted film about finding one's roots, crammed with old-fashioned pleasures, solid acting and sentiment that never cloys.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2023

Down in the Delta coheres in time for the big finish, transcending what's stale to become genuinely touching as it draws generations of a family together. The performances are hugely responsible. And Woodard as Loretta is the story's beating heart.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2023

The picture has its preachy moments as well as its treacly ones, but its sense of family matters, and why family matters, is sure and strong.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 5, 2023

Fraught with uneven pacing, labored dialogue and a movie-of-the-week plot, Maya Angelou's directorial debut resonates with so much honesty and pulses with so much emotional and historical truth, that it overcomes every technical limitation.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2023

Woodard is immense as the initially tottering but eventually stabilizing Loretta, eating up the screen with her expressive eyes.

| Jan 5, 2023

Down in the Delta is almost mind-boggling. How can a woman with the kind of insight that Angelou displays in her poetry and other writings not see that she was dealing with a script that spells things out as if it was written with a big, fat crayon?

| Jan 5, 2023

The material is sturdy but so familiar that it cries out for a director with cinematic fervor to bring much-needed juice to the project. [Maya Angelou] does her soothing best, but the result looks and feels like an ambitious movie-of-the-week.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2023

Down in the Delta is anything but a fancy movie, weaving its homespun yarn in a vernacular style that makes up in dramatic warmth what it lacks in technical skill.

| Jan 5, 2023

A talented cast (which includes Alfre Woodard, Al Freeman Jr. and Esther Rolle, in her final big-screen performance) helps salvage this otherwise clichéd drama from award-winning poet and author Maya Angelou.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2023

If Down in the Delta has the eyes-on-the prize pacing and the inspirational lilt of a made-for-온라인카지노추천 family drama, it comes by it honestly.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 5, 2023

Like the fragrant air of the Mississippi, Down in the Delta heals and restores.

| Original Score: B+ | Jan 5, 2023

It looks well on the big screen, though already seen on television's Showtime. Woodard is thus ineligible for an Oscar nomination, but this is one of the most involving and deeply wrought performances by an actor of boundless variety.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 5, 2023