| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

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

The movie's remaining revelations build slowly into a set of surprisingly powerful emotional beats.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 20, 2007

The frustration here is that none of this leads anywhere. Perhaps that is the point, that some mysteries are never solved, but Jindabyne could give us a little more to work with.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 7, 2007

The movie is beautifully shot, and succeeds in being deeply disturbing and mysterious, with richly achieved nuances of characterisation. I have seen it two or three times now, and each time it gets better.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jun 2, 2007

This kind of maturity and intelligence is all too infrequent in mainstream cinema -- let's hope it's not another six years until [director] Lawrence's next film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 2, 2007

Jindabyne loses its general sense of direction.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2007

Clearly, in his bid to repurpose Carver's story, Lawrence misses the writer's prevailing ethos: the sense of self-contained internal misery and that haunting quality of being hopelessly human.

| May 25, 2007

A great idea is weighed down by an over-egged screenplay, but the setting and cast bring out its best.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 25, 2007

The seamless overall blend of involving domestic turmoil and haunted national self-questioning is quite some achievement.

| May 24, 2007

An affecting character study, anchored by scraped-bare and often heartbreaking performances by Laura Linney and Gabriel Byrne.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2007

[Director] Lawrence's compelling little film pursues a deep question: why people make the choices that they do - and how they then live with those decisions, right or wrong, weak or strong.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 18, 2007

The resolution Jindabyne eventually offers feels small and safe. The movie goes out with a whimper.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 18, 2007

Thankfully, Linney and Byrne are so good, so absolutely mesmerizing, many of these flaws can be at least partially overlooked thanks to them.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 17, 2007

[Director] Lawrence certainly knows how to bait his audience with intriguing characters.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2007

Easy to admire but considerably harder to enjoy.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2007

Intelligent, superbly acted and finely observed, but Jindabyne suffers from too many extraneous elements and from a story that doesn't land with enough force or purpose.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 11, 2007

It's hard not to admire the film's confidence in making the story its own, and Ms. Linney, a mix of iron will and emotional fragility, delivers her usual complex performance.

| Original Score: B+ | May 11, 2007

Too many extraneous elements have been added but at the movie's center lies the knotty story of a marriage poisoned by amorality.

| May 4, 2007

Though Linney is the standout, short-shrift should not be given to the rest of the cast, whose roles might be smaller but they're the ones who add a little color to this otherwise dreary vista.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 4, 2007