... the pacing of this Sara Colangelo-directed film is far too sluggish to maintain my attention.

| Sep 1, 2017

As much as my conscience wanted to empathize with the characters, my taste only wanted to be rid of them.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 16, 2015

Nothing feels forced in this movie, which is testament to Colangelo's skill as well as the cast's. You believe the coal dust on these people; you grieve for their secrets.

| Original Score: B | Jan 16, 2015

Little Accidents paints a vivid portrait of a community facing an imminent existential crisis.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 16, 2015

To her credit, the writer-director tries for complexity. Now if she can just get the storytelling to match the quality of the filmmaking, I suspect there will be fewer little accidents.

| Jan 15, 2015

Owen tries with lurching uncertainty to ease back into normal, even as the writer and director Sara Colangelo clutters his path with enough obstacles to challenge the most heroically determined traveler.

| Jan 15, 2015

There's a quiet desperation to all the lives depicted in writer-director Sara Colangelo's assured indie about a West Virginia mining accident that upends everyone in town.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 15, 2015

"Little Accidents" is a serious movie, but, to its credit, it's never entirely bleak. Revealing the truth always remains an option, just waiting to set the characters free.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2015

All of these characters are in pain, and Colangelo never lets the audience forget it, since she's directed everyone to wear similar brooding expressions and walk around as if this screwed-up world and its many adversities are a constant weight.

| Original Score: C | Jan 15, 2015

A promising feature-film debut by writer-director Sara Colangelo that never quite rises above its dreary blue-collar ambience but reluctantly holds interest throughout, like a foghorn searching through mist to find a ray of light.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 14, 2015

This is a bleak and bitter movie, but it knows the way forward, if not the quickest way to get there.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 14, 2015

All the secrets, lies, and consequences feel as authentic as the Appalachian milieu, but the film lacks the memorable idiosyncrasy of a River's Edge, or more fittingly, the myth-making lyricism of Matewan.

| Jan 13, 2015

A small-town tragedy leads to moral crises on all sides in Sara Colangelo's Little Accidents, a sober drama that makes class central to the story without ever sounding like it has an agenda.

| Jan 12, 2015

A movingly authentic exploration of a working-class milieu and the psychological and economic trauma that ripples through a town in the wake of a tragic accident.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 9, 2015

Colangelo opts for unearned resolution, and cuts to neat and tidy black rather than dealing truthfully with the messy consequences that truth-telling can bring.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 23, 2014

A sensitive and well-meaning but rather ordinary melodrama that wouldn't have seemed out of place as a network movie-of-the-week circa 1985.

| Jan 23, 2014