In the Bedroom Critic Reviews

The surehandedly wrought, beautifully acted, almost unbearably tense In the Bedroom is a rare film, not to be missed.Read the full review

There are scenes as true as movies can make them, and even when the story develops thriller elements, they are redeemed, because the movie isn't about what happens, but about why.Read the full review

With performances that will raise the hairs on the back of your head, it's a film that knows the private geography of love, grief and obsession.Read the full review

When a film as profoundly quiet as In the Bedroom comes along, it feels almost miraculous, as if a shimmering piece of art had slipped below the radar and through the minefield of commerce.Read the full review

The best movie of the last several years: the most evocative, the most mysterious, the most inconsolably devastating.Read the full review

A lot of actors are labeled "brave" for taking on difficult scripts like this, but Spacek is the real thing: an artist first, without vanity, and a movie star almost by default.Read the full review

The kind of movie they don't make any more -- a seriously beautiful, deliberately paced drama that meanders for a while at the pace of a summer romance, then explodes with phenomenal force.Read the full review

The uncoagulated anguish of parents mourning the death of a child has rarely been more powerfully depicted than in the collected vignettes of grief, rage, and retribution that make up the riveting domestic drama In the Bedroom.Read the full review

An uncommonly good movie - a thriller that transcends thrills to become a heartfelt and heart-stopping personal drama.Read the full review