It’s a good thing the film is set in Northern California rather than North Carolina, because the only remaining cliché would be for the characters to deliver their lines with a thick Southern drawl.

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| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2011

William Maher's melodrama is much too grim and bleak for even the most cynical viewer to enjoy...

| Jan 12, 2011

Each bend in the road positively screeches with the urgency of impending catharsis, but the film never earns its resolution.

| Aug 8, 2009

The movie seems unusually honest in portraying the no-option existence of the working poor, but the story slips into melodrama in the last reel.

| Dec 8, 2008

Taking its cue from the tabloids, this is yet another addition to that tacky category of scandal sheet cinema. Why do celebrities with charmed Hollywood lives imagine everyday people as a bunch of sleazy or dimwitted degenerates, misfits and assassins.

| Jul 4, 2008

If you enjoyed MONSTER'S BALL (it's not as good as that one however), you might find yourself pulled in by this moving drama.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 18, 2008

The let's-take-a-road-trip method of character healing has been done to death, but unlike Little Miss Sunshine, James & Tara are made up of more than just cute quirks.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jun 4, 2008

Theron sneaks out the door roughly 1/2 an hour into the picture. What is the movie to do without her energy?

| May 15, 2008

Sleepwalking seems especially cruel to dwell on the bleak and cold at this time of year, when icy drizzle saturates the bones.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 11, 2008

...a lifeless movie about uninteresting people.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 25, 2008

Stylistically strange, sluggish and ultimately unsatisfying domestic drama.

| Original Score: C | Mar 25, 2008

It's a film of mood -- and the mood is perfectly captured.

Full Review | Mar 24, 2008

It's all too aptly named.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Mar 21, 2008

Sleepwalking provides character arcs for its two protagonists but neither is as interesting or memorable as the performances warrant.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 21, 2008

A girl abandoned by her mother, a father unable to offer anything but hatred to his own children -- these are narrative elements of potentially great force, but they play out here without much shape, definition or power.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Mar 21, 2008

The movie is so overly familiar, and its take on the dysfunctional family dynamics is so unoriginal, that the whole thing might as well have been titled Generic Bleak Sundance Film Festival Drama No. 500.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 20, 2008

The inherently uneventful nature of Stanford's script becomes more and more problematic as the film progresses...

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 19, 2008

It's apparent some meaningful visuals are being approached here, but it seems like the film keeps missing its mark.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 17, 2008