Moral dilemmas faced by immature teens is fine fare for young-adult fiction, but a movie that wants them to be taken as something bigger needs better management than Nearing Grace can provide.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 13, 2006

The performances by Smith, Brewster and veteran David Morse, as a morbidly depressed widower, elevate Nearing Grace to something near grace.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 13, 2006

...cinematic youth has rarely seemed so convincingly uncertain, and Brewster could definitely drive a young guy crazy.

Full Review | Oct 13, 2006

Smart, funny and, thanks in no small part to David Geddes' cinematography, it occasionally approaches the poetic.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2006

Bursting with hormones, angst, humor and heartbreak, Rick Rosenthal's Nearing Grace, set during the late 1970's in suburban New Jersey, follows a teenager's efforts to survive both the recent loss of his mother and his senior year of high school.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 12, 2006

The characters are stereotypes, their situations are familiar and the outcome is predictable. But the whole thing is viewed from such a feel-good perspective that we're willing to overlook much of that.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 12, 2006

An unsympathetic lead, a story that's been told a million times (the Scarlett-Ashley/star-crossed lovers story), relationships that don't make sense and an unfamiliarity with basic physics.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 12, 2006

Some Kind of Wonderful? No, some kind of earnest, stranded adaptation of Nearing Grace, Scott Sommer's late-1970s coming-of-age novel.

| Original Score: C+ | Oct 11, 2006

Sucks to be Nearing Grace on the same week that Zerophilia also opens.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 22, 2006

The teens this time resemble only those processed through 온라인카지노추천's feel-good filter.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2006

The richness of the characters and themes in Nearing Grace inspire director Rick Rosenthal and his cast to create a film with terrific emotional energy and larkish humor.

Full Review | Aug 15, 2006