This very small movie quiets its cast down and guides them into subtle, human-scaled performances.

| Original Score: B | Sep 17, 2022

Moonlight Mile takes you on an emotional journey, showing different types of grieving that all end in the same place - a place of hope and strength, pointing us into the future rather than the past.

| Nov 13, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Oct 7, 2012

"Moonlight Mile" is about livable compromises and the doubt and panic that linger once life's plans scatter and persist even as they settle again. Moreover, it's about the hardship of survivors honoring someone from whom they're best off moving on.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 19, 2010

Probably one of the most realistic, poignant, and intimate portraits into the lives of characters in mourning.

| Apr 29, 2009

At the very least an emotionally honest film, but it would have been far more affecting if it felt more true to life.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Dec 28, 2008

Starring the likes of Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman, filmmaker Brad Silberling delivers a personal movie that reassures us that that we will one day understand those terrible things that happen to us.

| Jul 2, 2008

Its original look at loyalty and loss subsides into a forgettable love story, leading it out of the darkness and straight into schmaltzville.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Great cinema is based on more than just great performances, and it seems as though writer/director Brad Silberling has relied on this talented cast to carry his film.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2006

With a relentless playlist of rock stand-bys, the film careers between jaunty and maudlin.

| Jun 24, 2006

Moonlight Mile is, at the very least, an emotionally honest film, but it would have been far more affecting if it felt more true to life.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

I appreciate what the film has to say about honesty and moving on with life. But ... the film's ultimate 'insights' about going on with life seem hollow and insufficient.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2005

Moonlight Mile might be the single most honest film ever made on the subject of grief. Not about death or dying, loss or regret, but about the grieving process itself: the highs, lows, in-betweens and the way all of them wrap, loop and intertwine.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 19, 2003

Excessivamente ansioso para provocar as lgrimas do espectador, o roteiro torna-se superficial e maniquesta, transformando o sofrimento de seus personagens em verdadeira tortura para o pblico.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2003

Has an emotional resonance above what we've come to expect/dread from big name Hollywood movies.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2003

Donnie Brighto is what they should have called this feeble, sucrose emotional drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

| Mar 25, 2003

In addition to the strong performances, the script is teeming with lovely, knowing moments, and the camera moves artfully.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2003

There's no hint of giant bunnies or falling airline engines; just good solid family drama. .

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2003

"...life isn't black and white, and often the funniest moments arise at the most tragic times. It's funny, sad, unpredictable and richly rewarding, this unusual love story set in a small town that shows us that dreams aren't really dreams, unless they are w

| Mar 8, 2003

'A big, comforting, baked potato of a film.'

| Feb 27, 2003