Watching Holbrook, I was reminded again of how steady and valuable this man has been throughout his career.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 22, 2010

As lovely as it is to see the veteran actor Holbrook working his craft as the lead actor in this Southern-fried drama, it's not enough to lift the movie from its sodden melodramatic roots.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 19, 2010

There is a predictability to the story, but that's OK. The acting is superb, Holbrook in particular, making That Evening Sun an understated pleasure.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 10, 2010

Though the movie is filled with complex emotions and a powerful poignancy, it often manages to be darkly funny, thanks to Holbrook's wily, unsentimental portrayal under Teems' smartly calibrated hand.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2009

[Holbrook is] wonderful.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2009

Holbrook is a terrific actor, and it's nice to see him in a leading role, but this is still a movie you can skip.

Full Review | Nov 16, 2009

The last scenes evoke a hollow emptiness that smacked me upside the head, and even if hope isn't gone it certainly isn't as knocking at the door with energetic excitement.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 13, 2009

Director Scott Teems' film is as quiet as untilled soil -- not always a good thing -- but Holbrook has a handle on where to dig.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Holbrook shines in a rare film-starring role as Abner Meechum, roughly a Southern version of the character Clint Eastwood played in Gran Torino.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 6, 2009

Holbrook's fierce, contained performance matches in depth and truthfulness his portrayal of a weary Army retiree who briefly becomes a surrogate father to Emile Hirsch's survivalist in Into the Wild.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Hal Holbrook shines in this leisurely paced drama about a stubborn octogenarian.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2009

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 6, 2009

Hal Holbrook was born to play sly, cantankerous rascals.

| Original Score: B | Nov 4, 2009

The entire exercise feels thin and reedy, trading in geriatric sentiment instead of hard-forged emotion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2009

That Evening Sun gets at something essential about man's sense of his own dignity and the importance to the American notion of self that comes with the possession of a property of one's own.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 1, 2009