[Director Jocelyn Moore] achieves a sturdy look, even in the flashback scenes, that gives weight and substance to the memories we see enacted.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2021

How to Make An American Quilt will have sentimental viewers reaching for the tissue box; cynical watchers nodding their heads with recognition.

| Nov 6, 2020

It has its effective moments but it tends to indicate emotions more than deliver them, and is finally more conventional and unadventurous than its elements would lead you to believe.

| Aug 2, 2016

Some of the episodic tales work better than others, but all are interesting and there are splendid characterisations from both young and more senior members of the cast.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2016

Even rough, tough boys will be seduced by this immensely likeable film.

| Aug 2, 2016

Contrived? Sure. Predictable? Mostly. Soapy? You bet. But with a cast like this, who cares?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 2, 2016

Rollicking, soap-like tale of women's love lives.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 18, 2010

Dramatically, more ultimately proves less, and the jumble feels like it should have been torn apart and rethreaded with stronger material.

Full Review | Mar 27, 2009

Ryder, as gamine as ever, delivers her most credible performance to date, while the luminous Simmons and imposing Angelou infuse the film with grace and understated charm.

| Jun 24, 2006

winona spoils the lovely vignettes

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 27, 2005

The stories are uninvolving, often too brief, and they quickly grow tiresome and repetitive.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 8, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 4, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 26, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 8, 2004

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 27, 2003

This exceptional film takes the makings of a limp "women's weeper" and as if by magic, spins them into gold.

| May 20, 2003

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2003

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 27, 2003

Also known as, 'How to Make an American Critic Doze Off."

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 4, 2003