| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Ultimately, Holly might have been more effective as a documentary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2007

Despite its best intentions, Holly never achieves the dramatic clarity it needs to put its human suffering into galvanizing perspective.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2007

Well-meaning but terminally dull.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Nov 30, 2007

It's realistic enough to admit that there's probably no way to ever completely eradicate an evil for which there seems to be such an eager demand.

| Original Score: B | Nov 29, 2007

Moshe and co-screenwriter Guy Jacobson use their white protagonist not cynically to exploit white guilt, but to excavate it and examine its possibilities and failings with an anthropological eye.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 25, 2007

...it's easy to imagine how another director might have felt the need to switch to slo-mo and cue the violins.

Full Review | Nov 21, 2007

While Yaron Orbach's camera repeatedly evokes Patrick's naïveté and yearning, the setting also remains resolutely "foreign."

Full Review | Nov 14, 2007

Despite a strong performance by Livingston, the film is sunk by sluggish pacing, straight-ahead plotting and an unresolved ending -- not to mention its inability to convince us that anything much can be done about sexual slavery.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Half drama, half social tract, Guy Moshe's feature debut is meant to illustrate the horrors of child prostitution in Southeast Asia. The intentions, unfortunately, are more notable than the execution.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Nov 9, 2007

Gritty and wrenching, Holly is fiction with the heart of an expose.

| Nov 9, 2007

A grittily realistic picture of a very unpretty world.

| Nov 9, 2007

There's a riveting story lurking inside Holly; It's just not the one the filmmakers want to tell.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 9, 2007

An unsparing look at child prostitution is a hard sell for audiences, but this movie is a memorable achievement.

Full Review | Nov 9, 2007

Even if it's the story of a white guy trying to save the day, it's also just a man looking to rescue an innocent girl from a life she never chose.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 8, 2007

A dawdling, myopic drama.

Full Review | Original Score: C- | Nov 7, 2007

Though the storytelling is haphazard, artistry often transcends mere good intentions.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2007

The almost amateur impression of 'Holly' allows for emphasis on what this urgent tale is about, rather than on any neat, packaged film-ness.

| Nov 2, 2007