Dustin Lance Black shows us that it is truly is the simple things in life that are often the most wonderful...just like Virginia.

| Nov 26, 2019

It's not funny, it's not charming and it's only clear it's set in modern day when a character mentions the internet.

| Nov 17, 2018

It's a hard picture to pin down--it has the raw materials for a big, dumb farce, but it stakes out a claim in altogether more interesting territory.

| Apr 9, 2016

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 15, 2012

A strong cast can't save "Virginia," Dustin Lance Black's film about a schizophrenic mom in a small Virginia beach town.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 7, 2012

Sensitive about characters exploring this culture and the conversations they must have trying to figure out relationships. It's not ridiculing or condescending at all.

| Original Score: 6 out of 10 | May 26, 2012

Black seems to be aiming for some sort of loopy fantasia, a tragic fable about struggling with difference in the small-town South, but he's got more half-finished ideas than he can handle.

| Original Score: C+ | May 25, 2012

A trainwreck.

| Original Score: 2/10 | May 25, 2012

The film concerns a woman with psychological problems, her married lover and her 16-year-old son, but the tale wobbles between humour and drama in a disconcerting fashion.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 18, 2012

It's all rather wacky and hard to follow or fathom, although maybe that's attributable to Virginia's schizophrenia veering off on its delusional phase.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2012

A bravely demented semi-autobiographical drama that never lives up to the potential of its high-powered cast.

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 18, 2012

Set among the hangdog hicks and arcade attractions of a fictional Southern beach town, the loosely autobiographical movie aims for roller-coaster passion but only flatlines.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | May 17, 2012

There are so many moving parts spinning in so many directions that this movie's purpose is inscrutable and the noise of its grinding parts distracting.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2012

The result here is the type of calamity that should be more compelling than it is.

| May 17, 2012

Virginia is so scattershot it feels like it's a vehicle created to loosely hold a group of ideas rather than function as anything coherent.

| Original Score: 5/10 | May 17, 2012

The movie as a whole falls victim to a dewy kind of Tennessee Williams-itis...

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 17, 2012

Plot twists strain believability. How could a 20-year affair between the town loon and the sheriff remain hidden from his wife in a tiny spot where gossip is a favourite sport?

| Original Score: 2/4 | May 17, 2012

Religious zealots and nonbelievers alike run amok, as discussions abound about post-mortem polygamy and romance materializing in outer space in the afterlife This, as erotic police handcuffs and Mitt Romney intimations kick in. Sex, Lies and Mormons.

| May 16, 2012

Black's overactive melodrama is more than a representation of schizophrenia; it's the embodiment of it.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 15, 2012

The variously eccentric characters and their flat Americana-kitsch backdrop never really feel like they're part of the same movie...

| May 15, 2012