I was unprepared for the transcendent final moments, which left me suddenly and unexpectedly in tears.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 8, 2015

This is a gentle, well-observed drama with a very likeable performance from Marsan.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2015

I was intrigued by the prospect of the always-compelling Eddie Marsan playing a dull south London council funeral administrator in Still Life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2015

It is a sad, muted film, speckled with many poignant and shrewd little visual touches about what solitude feels like.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 5, 2015

The presence of the great Eddie Marsan can't save this ponderous and sentimental Brit film about death and dying.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 5, 2015

This mopey British drama (2013) trades in easy ironies and self-satisfied humanism, throwing in a little ugly-duckling romance.

| Feb 2, 2015

Beautifully crafted and exquisitely observed with an outstanding performance from Eddie Marsan in the lead.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 2, 2015

Marsan's technical precision as an actor is formidable, and he's wonderful to watch. But when the material's synthetic, as it is here, you wish Marsan could bust loose at the expense of the movie's obsessively orderly nature.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 29, 2015

A soulful if obvious meditation on lives lived unshared, and one man's dedication to righting those wrongs while neglecting his own life.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2015

The film's title says lots about its mood and style, which is heavy on becalmed views of rooms, objects like an apple peel and office utensils, and May's glazed gazes at nothing in particular.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 16, 2015

Pasolini has a gem in Marsan, a virtuoso actor who plays the role delicately where another might have laid on the pathos too thick.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 15, 2015

You may scold yourself for investing any emotion at all in hokum that even Mr. Marsan, for all his kindly gravity, can't begin to salvage.

| Jan 15, 2015

As a film, it's not viciously bad, but it's dull. Worse, there's a ludicrous ending designed to elicit an emotional reaction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 15, 2015

Still Life constantly threatens to become a better movie ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 14, 2015

It's so pillow-smothered by tedium that even the uplift of magic realism in the film's final shot seems cold and stiff.

| Original Score: C | Jan 14, 2015

When it's all over, Still Life feels disembodied and perfunctory, like a very respectful eulogy for no one in particular.

| Jan 13, 2015

The fragile film's bid for poignancy is so aggressive and its sensitivity so studied that it eventually drowns in syrupy banality.

| Jan 12, 2015

The film's fixation on life's quotidian aspects eventually gives way to a rote courtship drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 12, 2015

The inescapably precious "Still Life" doesn't deal in anything as truthful, complex and difficult as empathy; its only currency is pity, and that is the basest coin of all.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 23, 2014

This is a film that demands patience from a sympathetic audience, but the rewards are considerable.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 30, 2014