Forty Shades of Blue Critic Reviews

Alan, who Mr. Sachs has said was based on his own father, is a great character - passionate, complicated, bursting with life. Those words also describe Mr. Torn's performance.Read the full review

Director Ira Sachs moves to the rhythms of his native Memphis, teasing emotional resonance out of geography.Read the full review

Investing a lot of time on each corner of his three-sided character piece, director Ira Sachs (who co-wrote the film with Michael Rohatyn) has created a film as dramatically intense as it is opaque.Read the full review

Sachs has pulled off a film of inferences and intimations, thanks largely to the casting of accomplished actors.Read the full review

I despised the character of Alan James so sincerely that I had to haul back at one point to remind myself that, hey, I've met Rip Torn and he's a nice guy and he's only acting.Read the full review

A slow seduction.Read the full review

A muted but nicely observed study of a Russian woman's gradual estrangement from her domineering Memphis music-legend husband.Read the full review