Doing grief is tricky. At its most effective, it can reach out and wrap itself around your heart. But [Nicole] Kidman is never given a chance to take it in, deep into herself, and bring it out.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 3, 2019

It's not an easy ride but, as far as difficult rides go, this is worth taking and holding on for dear life.

| Aug 30, 2018

Though it plateaus emotionally for much of the time, Rabbit Hole is an engaging and heartfelt drama.

| Original Score: B | Sep 8, 2017

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 18, 2012

Rabbit Hole is a searing drama that, despite its bleak theme, bravely posits how even the deepest emotional abyss need not become a prison of depression and hopelessness.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 16, 2011

The script, adapted by playwright David Lindsay-Abaire from his own Pulitzer Prize winner, demonstrates an extreme, occasionally comic, distaste for the sentimentality often provoked by other people's grief.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2011

The sheer excruciating, stultifying good taste of this movie is almost unbearable - so tasteful it could have started out as a coffee-table book, though actually it is based on a Pulitzer-winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 7, 2011

It's a slight, well-acted tale in search of an epiphany.

| Feb 7, 2011

Kidman, looking almost anorexic with grief and sharply critical of everyone trying to comfort her, including her husband, is as good as she has been for some time.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 4, 2011

If you must watch the portrait of a marriage strained to breaking-point, try the recent Blue Valentine, where you at least feel sorry for the unhappy couple that once cherished and loved each other.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 4, 2011

Will stay with you for days. A moving and truly beautiful film.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2011

The terrain of grief is well mapped-out in American art movies, but Rabbit Hole finds some subtle new pathways through it.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 3, 2011

Everyone monologues, philosophises, weeps or does stream-of-consciousness cadenzas. No one has a human quirk or foible.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2011

The problem with 'Rabbit Hole' is that it plays at one unrelentingly gloomy frequency: occasional moments of humour or tension are simply unable to puncture the overriding sense of oppressive sadness.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 2, 2011

This is as clever, funny, foolish and frightening as real life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 31, 2011

Plays out with all the subtlety of one of those bum-awful "issues-driven" episodes of EastEnders. You half-expect an "if you were affected by the events in this movie, you can call our special helpline" message to drone out over the end credits.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 31, 2011

For all its sympathy and intelligence, Rabbit Hole is ultimately too safe an experience for such a free-form tragedy.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2011

Rabbit Hole, directed with grace and surprising humor by John Cameron Mitchell, is a delicate tale that shares a great deal of the hurt of Robert Redford's Ordinary People.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 14, 2011

As heavy, stressful, relentlessly sad dramas go, this one goes quite well.

| Original Score: B | Jan 14, 2011

John Cameron Mitchell directed, making an impressive detour in style and subject matter after his flamboyant Shortbus and Hedwig and the Angry Inch.

| Jan 14, 2011