The Shipping News Critic Reviews

It's hardly possible to overstate what a welcome change of pace The Shipping News is for admirers of Kevin Spacey.Read the full review

It's worth seeing at the very least because it is so different from standard Hollywood fare.Read the full review

The Shipping News is good news, but not as good as it could have been.Read the full review

But, lord, the characters are tireless in their peculiarities; it's as if the movie took the most colorful folks in Lake Wobegon, dehydrated them, concentrated the granules, shipped them to Newfoundland, reconstituted them with Molson's and issued them Canadian passports.Read the full review

Watching the Pulitzer-prize winning novel by E. Annie Proulx on the big screen is like being on an ocean liner stuck on a glacier.Read the full review

Seems to be playing the author's music, but like a string quartet that plays a half-beat off.Read the full review

Doesn't really work but has a good cast and great craggy ocean-framed scenery.Read the full review

A limp and sodden downer.Read the full review

The final product is soft at the center, a rustic cinematic greeting card.Read the full review