This is a debut of amazing heft from Todd Field, gripping from gentle opening to dark conclusion, and acted with the kind of raw feeling that has you fighting to hold back tears.

| Nov 8, 2023

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2003

Goes the distance to avoid banalizing the dilemma of a reasonable couple unhinged by unreasonable events.

| Aug 12, 2002

Intense, superbly acted chamber piece.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 21, 2002

So emotionally pure and rigorous that you're more than willing to go along with it.

Full Review | Jan 10, 2002

The story and direction are powerful enough. But it's the acting that takes In the Bedroom higher.

Full Review | Dec 28, 2001

Lingers in the mind, suffusing melancholy with the fateful pall of dread that hangs over all of life's pleasures.

| Dec 28, 2001

Field has a talent for drawing us directly into his characters' lives and making us feel what they feel.

| Dec 28, 2001

There has probably not been a more adult American film made in the last year.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 28, 2001

A film that owes its impact to the sounds of silence and to exquisitely careful work from its lead actors.

Full Review | Dec 26, 2001

The surehandedly wrought, beautifully acted, almost unbearably tense In the Bedroom is a rare film, not to be missed.

Full Review | Dec 26, 2001

Gets at what most Hollywood movies are afraid to say about the way we live on the edge of tragedy.

| Dec 25, 2001

This is the kind of restrained, deeply human relationship picture that Hollywood -- in its rush to keep us from ourselves -- has forgotten how to make.

Full Review | Dec 25, 2001

There are scenes as true as movies can make them.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 25, 2001

Short of good, better than awful, it opens brilliantly, then just goes on, toward self-negating absurdity.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Dec 25, 2001

Quite simply, it's exquisite filmmaking.

Full Review | Dec 25, 2001

Like most movies directed by actors, this is a wonderful acting showcase.

Full Review | Dec 24, 2001

We sense from its opening minutes that we are in the hands of accomplished storytellers.

| Dec 24, 2001

A rare cinematic creature: a very depressing film that gives you a lift with the sheer magic of its craft.

Full Review | Dec 24, 2001