Just as the relationships at the core of this drama, The Yellow Handkerchief is one big compromise. Make do with the lackluster parts and receive something uniquely pleasant.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2010

This is basically brooding people doing awkward things in a humid environment.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 2, 2010

When The Yellow Handkerchief finally hooks into the meat of Hamill's source story, the narrative tension puts enough wind in the film's sails to arrive at its corny but sentimentally satisfying conclusion.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2010

The unhurried direction of Udayan Prasad and the unafraid choices of the sure-footed cast keep this character-driven drama afloat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2010

Never feels like anything but a movie with its characters who constantly say what they're feeling and doing and it never once feels genuine or organic.

| Mar 16, 2010

The Yellow Handkerchief is a love story. Two, really. At its center is the sweetly fractured ticking of a broken heart on the mend.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2010

The Yellow Handkerchief is a surprisingly moving drama -- a throwback to the small, character-driven indies of yesteryear.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2010

Even Stewart, an untutored colt of an actress who can toggle between natural grace and utter haplessness, finds her groove here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2010

You don't need an original story for a movie. You need original characters and living dialogue.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 11, 2010

Here the fascination is Hurt, so deft at steering his character away from booby-trap clichés that he guides his young costars safely out of sap's way and brightens an otherwise very yellowed tale.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 3, 2010

With tired eyes, a hesitant stoop and thinning hair, William Hurt makes only occasional appearances in films these days, but he's forgotten nothing about the kind of niche acting that informed his early work and won him a coveted Best Actor Oscar.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 3, 2010

The first half of The Yellow Handkerchief is the half-movie of the year, and the rest isnâ(TM)t bad -- just more sentimental, more ordinary.

| Mar 1, 2010

Director Udayan Prasad knows how to maximize tight spaces and closed-up characters, but Stewart underwhelms with her churlish pout and Southern twang, while Redmayne is simply annoying.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 26, 2010

Despite all the sad twists and turns in the central love story, the movie's most heartbreaking element is that Hurt and Bello do such good work in a fairly negligible movie.

| Feb 26, 2010

Erin Dignam's episodic script, brimming with humor and honest emotion -- and the pitch-perfect direction of Udayan Prasad -- thankfully avoids manipulating the audience at every turn.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 26, 2010

William Hurt, who specializes in playing high-strung, upscale neurotics, brings his formidable skills to The Yellow Handkerchief.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 25, 2010

It's nice to see a film unafraid to be quiet and sensitive, but one good gust of coastal breeze would blow this one away.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Feb 25, 2010

A wispy story of revelation that's blessed with gorgeously photographed Southern discomfort, and beset by on-the-nose dialogue and awkward time-shifting.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 24, 2010

All three leads are solidly convincing in their candor. And Oscar-winning cinematographer Chris Menges (The Mission) shoots the hell out of the swampy South to make for a nontoxic diversion.

| Feb 23, 2010

The film fails to provide Kristen Stewart the courtesy of a role with scene-stealing potential.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 22, 2010