A Slipping-Down Life Critic Reviews
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The movie is not a great dramatic statement, but you know that from the modesty of the title. It is about movement in emotional waters that had long been still. Taylor makes it work because she quietly suggests that when Evie's life has stalled, something drastic was needed to shock her back into action, and the carving worked as well as anything. Read the full review
The casting of Taylor gives the film a powerful center, a bright light that keeps it on course. Read the full review
Although mood often substitutes for momentum in Ms. Kalem's film, both of her stars give affecting performances, and there's growth on both sides of the unlikely romance.Read the full review
A Slipping-Down Life has a worn, scruffy feeling. It gazes lovingly at vintage clothes and battered old cars as if they were the visible signs of authenticity, wishing that its morose, disconnected inhabitants could somehow be touched with the same elusive quality. Read the full review
Has an oddness and whimsicality about it that can, at first, be confused for authenticity.Read the full review
As it plays, it simply feels like a kind of cop-out. Nobody changes that much. Read the full review
Taylor does that thing she does when she whispers as if she has just discovered speech; Pearce enjoys himself doing his own singing, and embracing grunge. Read the full review
A curiously bland drama that fails to fulfill the promise of its early scenes.Read the full review
The two leads help create an atmosphere of quiet surety, but they can't elevate the film beyond its self-imposed smallness. Read the full review
The director deserves admiration for sticking to her guns, but here's a heretical notion: Maybe the producer's cut would have been a better movie. This version may be too late, but it's also too little, and that's what hurts. Read the full review
