Stephanie Daley Critic Reviews
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With a calmness that bespeaks confidence, this small, spellbinding second feature by Hilary Brougher brings together two women, trapped in separate states of denial and distress, who manage to end each other's entrapment.Read the full review
The scary culminating flashback, in which Stephanie gives birth -- in a public restroom, on a high school ski trip -- is a marvel of authentic disturbance.Read the full review
Brougher has taken material that sounds contrived and potentially exploitative and used her gift for careful observation and restrained emotionality to give it surprising authenticity.Read the full review
Tamblyn's surprisingly measured performance commands attention.Read the full review
Some cases should never come to trial, because no verdict would be adequate. You are likely to be discussing this film long into the night.Read the full review
Without standing on a soapbox Stephanie Daley suggests a tragic gender gap between men who judge and women who feel.Read the full review
The film itself is dark and chilling, if occasionally plodding, but worth seeing for the absorbing potency of its main performances.Read the full review
A taut, provocative, sometimes overreaching but always absorbing thriller.Read the full review
A muted psychological mystery where filmmaker Hilary Brougher's interest in "solving" a possible crime is superseded by her investigation into matters involving denial, free will and the physical and emotional burdens of pregnancy.Read the full review
