Rails & Ties Critic Reviews

I found the opening third tremendously intriguing and involving, I thought the emotions were so real they could be touched, but then the film lost its way and fell into the clutches of sentimental melodrama.Read the full review

Reserved, careful and largely predictable in the way it plays out its wrenching emotional crises.Read the full review

Everything looks professional if undistinguished.Read the full review

While it features three strong performance and the debut of a promising filmmaker, the story line is obvious and rather melodramatic.Read the full review

As lovely as some of the footage looks and as committed as are the three lead performances, they serve only to make Rails & Ties play like an exceptionally well-acted and well-made Lifetime movie.Read the full review

Rails & Ties is like one bad TV movie that slammed into another.Read the full review

A heartfelt but dramatically flat portrait of a couple grappling with one tragedy whose lives are profoundly affected by the outcome of another.Read the full review

Nobody feels anything they're not explicitly told to feel. Not even the audience.Read the full review