You Can Count on Me Critic Reviews

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Boston Globe | Jay CarrAdd Critic to Favorites

Satisfying in every respect, it's a piece of blue-collar chamber music, never treating the characters cheaply, allowing them a complex entwinement of emotions.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Carla MeyerAdd Critic to Favorites

It's simply a quiet and heartbreaking look at the dynamics of one family. That's the beauty of it.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

It's rare to get a good movie about the touchy adult relationship of a sister and brother. Rarer still for the director to be more fascinated by the process than the outcome. This is one of the best movies of the year.Read the full review

Rolling Stone | Peter TraversAdd Critic to Favorites

There may be bigger, costlier, weighter films this year. There's none lovelier.Read the full review

Washington Post | Desson ThomsonAdd Critic to Favorites

A humanistic gem of a movie, with unforgettable performances from Linney and Ruffalo.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The best American movie of the year. Has a subtext so powerful that it reaches out and pulls you under. Even when the surface is tranquil, you know in your guts what's at stake.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Lisa SchwarzbaumAdd Critic to Favorites

Beautiful, compassionate, articulate domestic drama.Read the full review

Variety | Emanuel LevyAdd Critic to Favorites

A sensitive, intimate, enormously touching drama.Read the full review

The New York Times | Stephen HoldenAdd Critic to Favorites

Melancholy little gem of a movie.Read the full review

USA Today | Staff [Not Credited]Add Critic to Favorites

The best drama you've seen about Anytown, USA, since "American Beauty."Read the full review

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