Down to the Bone Critic Reviews

Down to the Bone achieves what only the best independent films have: making life, at its most unvarnished, a journey.Read the full review

The film is so pitch perfect and realistic, it seems you are there with these people, watching their lives unfold before you as it happens.Read the full review

Down to the Bone emerges with an aura of authenticity so strong as to be mesmerizing, thanks to a superior script brought to life with infallibly natural performances.Read the full review

If there were an ounce of taste left in Hollywood, the magnificent Vera Farmiga would be a front-runner for the Best Actress Oscar.Read the full review

This is a performance without the histrionics and emotional outbursts that accompany most portrayals of addiction. This feels closer to the truth.Read the full review

First-time feature director's disciplined objectivity is coupled with humanism in this collaboration with a gifted cast and cinematographer. The artistic success, though, may be a bit too cool.Read the full review