Levity Critic Reviews
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A thoughtful, almost poetic, piece that puts forth the argument that redemption is not easily achieved.Read the full review
It's an intriguing movie, and Thornton's performance is both fascinating and maddening.Read the full review
About as well-meaning as a movie can get, but that's never enough to ensure it comes alive on the screen, which is sadly the case here.Read the full review
Solomon handles their crises of conscience with a studied compassion that hangs over scenes like a lead weight, though the actors (particularly Dunst) do their best to bring more range to his gray palette.Read the full review
Despite an effectively low-key performance by Billy Bob Thornton in the leading role, pic is no more spiritually insightful or illuminating than Sunday School instructional story, and a lot less dramatically coherent. Read the full review
The actors, too, bring more realism -- more gravity, if you will -- to the film than its wobbly premise deserves. Read the full review
Saddest, most hang-dog, most depressing movie possible. Read the full review
Freeman and Hunter are both overqualified for material this ponderous, but she plays along, while he appears to have made a minimal emotional investment in the oncoming avalanche of coincidences and cliches. Read the full review
For all its seriousness, though, Levity struck me as pretentious and intractably lifeless. Read the full review
An earnest but hopeless attempt to tell a parable about a man's search for redemption. By the end of his journey, we don't care if he finds redemption, if only he finds wakefulness. Read the full review
