The Ballad of Jack and Rose Critic Reviews

Miller's theme is innocence, the loss of it, and the reclamation of equanimity in the face of that loss, and the music she makes is haunting.Read the full review

Powered by an exceptional performance by Daniel Day-Lewis, this artfully disturbing film is a compelling, imaginative look at the potent emotional bond that forms not between romantic lovers but between fathers and daughters.Read the full review

An absorbing experience.Read the full review

Camilla Belle is an impressive newcomer - this could be her breakthrough appearance.Read the full review

Has density enough for several films. What's missing is spontaneity, and variety. And, throughout most of the narrative, velocity.Read the full review

Often seems less like a fully realized film than an illustrated story, its paragraphs reduced to neatly contrived set pieces.Read the full review

A self-conscious attempt at the brass ring.Read the full review

Well-wrought individual scenes and sharply focused acting provide Rebecca Miller's third feature with a measure of gravity, but too much abrupt, even melodramatic behavior and undigested psychological matter leave nagging dissatisfactions.Read the full review

If only Miller's writing had some human zest. Nearly everybody here is crunchy, salt-of-the-earth organic, and off in a dreamland.Read the full review