... The Daughter, while sticking close in broad outline to Ibsen's 1884 masterpiece, moves with a fluid grace that's wholly cinematic...

| Dec 14, 2017

As any kind of introduction to Ibsen, this film is more a turnoff than a turn-on.

| Original Score: C+ | Feb 3, 2017

Made with taste, skill and discretion, "The Daughter" demonstrates both the staying power of classic material and the risks inherent in bringing it up to date.

| Feb 2, 2017

While the acting draws us into the story, it plays like a daytime soap opera with really good actors and Australian accents.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 2, 2017

The Daughter offers a good but sadly wasted cast, obscured in the eye-rubbing mist of a foggy Down Under countryside and struggling to rise above the sludge of a basic soap opera with literary pretensions.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 1, 2017

The off-kilter handheld camerawork frequently chases after the figures as they move about. But there is no disguising that there's much more talk than action in The Daughter.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 27, 2017

The characters don't have conversations so much as helpfully recite their back stories, and the long-buried secret is soon so obvious that the movie's last-act hysteria feels forced and a little ridiculous.

| Jan 26, 2017

In his atmospheric debut film, Australian theater director Simon Stone whittles down The Wild Duck into a cautionary tale about welcoming home an emotional exile.

| Jan 26, 2017

It too often strains for a tragic gravity that its ultimately melodramatic characters never earn.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 23, 2017

It's a bit like an Australian soap opera, but low-key and true-to-life.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2016

After a slow build, the final act picks up the pace but director Simon Stone shows his hand too early. Still, it's chilling to watch the wreckage pile up.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 30, 2016

The melodrama of the third act is mitigated by the quality of the performances.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 29, 2016

A solid debut feature, with strong hopes for Australian cinema both behind and in front of the camera.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 27, 2016

Working with meaty roles, the collective produce a delicate julienne of guarded feelings. Rush, in particular, is As You've Never Seen Him Before.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 27, 2016

As drama, this is downbeat and depressive but Stone elicits committed and intense performances from an excellent cast and his low-key naturalistic approach is at least occasionally leavened by moments of lyricism.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 26, 2016

Beautifully acted, if a little overcooked.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 24, 2016

moody and intense story with powerhouse performances from Ewen Leslie, Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto, Sam Neill and newcomer Odessa Young.

| Apr 27, 2016

The Daughter has a sense of immediacy and an apparent embrace of naturalism, yet its carefully heightened use of space, place and emptiness has a strong impact.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 16, 2016

The climax, when it comes, bubbles up to the point of hysteria. The saving grace is some fine, impassioned work from Otto, who finally gets a chance to shine in a role that's underwritten in the earlier scenes.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2016

The entire cast responds to the director's subtle and intelligent vision, giving performances that resonate long after the film is over.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 11, 2016