Ulee's Gold Critic Reviews
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Ulee's Gold is a story of redemption, and Nunez doesn't make redemption look any easier than it is.Read the full review
Though it occasionally wears its metaphors on its sleeve, Ulee's Gold should, if there's any justice, find the same thoughtful-drama-hungry audience that made "Sling Blade" a hit.Read the full review
Ulee's Gold stands out for its sureness, its quiet emotional force and writer-director Victor Nunez's ability to find and nurture the mystery and power in the events of an ordinary life.Read the full review
Nunez finds a striking lyricism in simple lives that inspires an uncommonly fine cast and ranks him as a world-class filmmaker.Read the full review
Beautiful and heartfelt, an oasis of humanity in a season of furious hyperbole.Read the full review
An emotionally honest low-ebber that builds to a satisfying wrap-up.Read the full review
Nunez has a gift for finding the essence, the soul, of his actors.Read the full review
The highest compliment I can offer Ulee's Gold is that it plays more like real life than a movie.Read the full review
The film becomes a modest delight.Read the full review
Nunez achieves a rare, and rarely earned, emotional depth that rewards the moderate demands he makes on contemporary viewers' short attention spans.Read the full review
