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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.Full Review

Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times

The casting of Taylor gives the film a powerful center, a bright light that keeps it on course.Full Review

Los Angeles Times

The casting of Taylor gives the film a powerful center, a bright light that keeps it on course. Full Review

Kevin Crust
Los Angeles Times

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.Full Review

Joe Morgenstern
Wall Street Journal

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.Full Review

Dana Stevens
The New York Times
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