Lemmons also does a stunning job of relaying a memory to us. She places the characters right back into the scene playing in their mind's eye. They narrate it as they witness it, blow by blow. But as we see, things aren't always what they appear to be.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 10, 2023

[Lemmons's] creativity and the breadth of her vision more than make up for her occasional missteps, luring us into a family album of secrets and lies that keeps the audience groping along with this fine ensemble cast for the truths buried in murky waters.

| Jan 10, 2023

An astonishingly accomplished first feature by Kasi Lemmons, this poetic and achingly perceptive film deserves a place on any number of year-end "best" lists.

| Original Score: A | Jan 10, 2023

The expressivity of the filmmaking doesn't quite measure up to the ideas and feelings that inspired Eve's Bavott. That said, this is still a wonderfully talented and intelligent film.

| Jan 10, 2023

Actress Kasi Lemmons makes a self-assured directorial debut that illuminates the joys, hurts and mysteries of a girlhood set under the moss canopy of the Louisiana bayou. Newcomer Jurnee Smollett as Eve is the prize of the movie.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2023

First-time director (and veteran actress) Kasi Lemmons captures shimmering images that project a kaleidoscope mastery of shifting, intricate moods, but it is her stunningly self-assured screenplay that represents an even more significant achievement.

| Jan 10, 2023

Beyond its compelling family dynamics, Eve's Bayou resonates with close encounters of the physical and metaphysical kind.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 10, 2023

Firmly anchored by confident movie-star performances by Samuel L. Jackson, Lynn Whitfield and Diahann Carroll, this vivid portrait of an early-1960s African-American family is one of the most impressive ensemble pieces of the season.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 10, 2023

Eve's Bayou is thick with swampy atmosphere, but thinly developed. When the fog lifts, there's little to see.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 10, 2023

With Eve as its subjective center, the film shifts between past, present and future in a manner which is illuminating rather than confusing, making it a generational saga that opens the question of how the past haunts the future.

| Jan 10, 2023

The poise and passion in Eve's Bayou leave one grateful, exhausted and nourished. For the restless spirit, here is true soul food.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2023

Miracles occasionally do happen, but until the next one, the small film Eve's Bayou will have to do.

| Jan 10, 2023

It is not without its defects, but they're minor... The winding together of the personal and the historical makes this far more than your conventional domestic melodrama.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 10, 2023

Eve's Bayou is a brilliant piece of storytelling. The script by director Kasi Lemmons runs both deep and wide as it examines the paradox of a loving family which finds that, sometimes, love is not enough.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 10, 2023

Jackson has never played a character quite this avid. And in a performance that requires him to infuse the role of perfect father and dream lover with a demonic charge, Jackson makes Louis at once irresistibly lovable and slightly terrifying.

| Jan 10, 2023

A straight narrative line, however, cannot suggest the richness of the film's texture, both emotionally and visually... Here is a film with an air of mystery, but no gloom and doom.

| Jan 10, 2023

Rather than a story that develops toward some tragic crescendo, what we get are vignettes and anecdotes in a friendly but formless soup.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 10, 2023

What stays with me after all these years are the images of its female characters in liminal states, on the edge of awakenings: Roz’s beautiful façade cracking under the pressure of her husband’s impropriety...

| Jan 10, 2023

Inexplicably lauded in some quarters, this 1960s-set saga of black familial torment is like Mourning Becomes Electra without the jokes; or like a Toni Morrison novel that has ruptured itself while trying to turn into a 온라인카지노추천 soap opera.

| Jan 10, 2023

As intense as its emotions get, there's a grace in the shaping of highly charged and evocatively atmospheric Eve's Bayou that makes it doubly impressive.

| Jan 9, 2023