Tarnation is one of the most powerfully emotional movies I've ever seen.

| Aug 23, 2017

An original, personal, emotionally touching documentary, which represents a new type of indie, based on innovating filmmaking.

| Original Score: B+ | May 14, 2011

As performance art born of personal pain, "Tarnation" stares teary-eyed into how genetics, culture, environment and susceptibility conspire to trigger mental illness - a documentary more to be experienced than simply viewed.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 21, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 7, 2008

Jonathan had plenty to be woeful about, but the movie is best when it slips quietly into the pockets between his family's dramatic episodes.

| Jun 2, 2008

Como toda confesión, en la que alguien desnuda su intimidad sin pudor para quien quiera escuchar, Tarnation es capaz de generar desde la fascinación curiosa hasta la incomodidad y el rechazo.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 13, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 1, 2006

The film is in the May program of the Charlotte Film Society, and even the CFS has offered few pictures this compellingly strange.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 13, 2005

A twisted pastiche of pain, suffering, and narcissistic indulgence.

| Original Score: B+ | May 4, 2005

Full of real humanity and occasional insight, this is not the most feelgood movie you'll see this year, but in its total honesty it does manage to be important and moving.

| Original Score: 60/100 | May 1, 2005

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 22, 2005

There's no doubting the deep love Caouette feels for his troubled mother, nor his achievement in forging such a rawly emotional film from his own traumatic experiences.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2005

Undeniably compelling, it's proof of the therapeutic potential of filmmaking, but also of our limitless propensity for morbid curiosity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2005

As a first-time experimental filmmaker, Caouette displays remarkable directing and editing skills.

| Original Score: B | Apr 13, 2005

Here's hoping your kids' home movies never look like this.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | Apr 8, 2005

A soul-baring scrapbook of a film, its audacity surpassed only by its tragedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2005

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 12, 2005

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 5, 2005

You shouldn't go see "Tarnation" because it was made so cheaply. You should see it because it was made so well.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 17, 2005

Although aggressively unconventional, it's never pretentious.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 21, 2005