If there's one thing writer Tim Kirkman does extraordinarily well, it's creating complex, layered characters.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 8, 2023

This has its sappy moments, but both women give wonderfully detailed performances, aided by Michael Learned as Hunt's mother and Chris Sarandon as the calm, cold minister.

| Jun 28, 2022

Loggerheads proceeds at a turtle's pace. At times, you feel like you're sitting in the preacher's house, with its well-starched tablecloth and hymns for all occasions.

| May 9, 2020

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 21, 2006

the kind of movie that makes you feel more like an eavesdropper than a viewer

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2006

"Loggerheads" is like a person who never raises her voice, yet somehow you know to pay attention to every word she says.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2006

The dramatic tension is nil. But the performances, particularly by Hunt (in a non-comedic role, for a change), are worth a look.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 3, 2006

The movie could have benefited from a lighter touch ...

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 26, 2006

The movie weaves flawless performances by Bonnie Hunt, Chris Sarandon, Michael Learned and others into a mesmerizing tapestry of familial yearning and loss.

| Jan 26, 2006

... if you can shake out some of the chafing bits of sand that weigh down Loggerheads, you'll find a heartfelt story about people coming to terms with irrevocable loss.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 15, 2006

Despite a meandering tone, Loggerheads is consistently watchable thanks to committed actors playing recognizable, decent folks just trying to do the right thing -- or rectify mistakes of the past.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 12, 2006

The film is very smart in recognizing that being gay is about a lot more than whom you sleep with.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Dec 28, 2005

You're in deep.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Dec 15, 2005

The stories unfold at about the speed of a turtle slowing crawling across the sand, but eventually you get the whole picture and it becomes a moving story of love and redemption.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Dec 14, 2005

A chamber piece of subtle touches, finely acted, the movie has time jumps that are a little confusing.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 9, 2005

This quiet community and family drama set on the North Carolina shore offers a bighearted outlook on how to absorb change and defeat.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 9, 2005

Slow, unadorned, compassionate, and earnest, Loggerheads is a low-fi throwback to the independent films of the 1980s and '90s -- heartland miniatures hewn from plainspoken lives.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 2, 2005

Loggerheads has the best qualities of independent filmmaking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 11, 2005

Featuring a number of nicely honed performances and weaving three initially disparate tales into one, Loggerheads delivers far more than you might expect.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Nov 11, 2005

... a quietly impressive, nuanced essay about the emotional politics of abandonment, adoption and atonement that needs no dispensation for its small budget.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Nov 7, 2005