It has the emotional wallop of a Mike Leigh offering and the acute intelligence of an early John Schlesinger effort. This is a film about learning how to seize the day. And this is a film that does just that.

| Jun 28, 2018

Hunter and Hunsinger show what can happen if you opt instead for the humour that accompanies can-I-feel? quiet. Turns out wit and warmth and keen observation produce their own euphoria -- what you might call a natural high.

| Nov 15, 2017

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

A guy's flick whose charms are many and faults are few.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2003

Lawless Heart is so well crafted, so original, that each overlapping scene swells with new life and interpretation.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 10, 2003

The skill with which these temporalities are connected is considerable.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 8, 2003

The situations are forced; love blossoms way too easily; and the characters are downright daft.

| Original Score: C | Jun 5, 2003

The writing-directing pair of Neil Hunter and Tom Hunsinger create a fairly seamless patchwork, although the novelty starts to wear thin by the third layer.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2003

It's an intriguing experience.

Full Review | May 9, 2003

Shows us small revelations only an opened heart can grasp.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | May 8, 2003

It's an ambitious attempt, but one which too often puts form ahead of story.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 2, 2003

As it stands, Tim's story rescues the movie, but barely.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 2, 2003

It thins out until the repetitive format begins to seem, well, repetitive.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 2, 2003

It's dedicated to a fuller understanding of the human condition, a deeper appreciation of everything we take for granted in even the messiest melodramas.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | May 1, 2003

The characters are full-bodied and authentic, capable of surprising themselves, and their dialogue is written with a good ear for how smart people try to be truthful and secretive at the same time.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 25, 2003

It is so adroit in its structure, so insightful in how it explores its vivid characters that it forces us to acknowledge not only how complicated all lives are but also how easy it is to be self-centered and miss those complications in everyone else.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 24, 2003

What seems like a politely repressed British drama on first viewing becomes deeper, more eloquent, and more piercing the more it expands in your mind's eye. About three days after you see it, the movie pops into three-dimensional profundity.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 4, 2003

This low-key affair is graced with fine performances and a decidedly grown-up view of the world.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 14, 2003

Good, sophisticated, warm-hearted fun (poor Dan excluded), and should be seen.

| Mar 6, 2003

The storytelling structure is far more interesting than the story itself.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 1, 2003