Critic Reviews

It isn't often that lives of quiet desperation are served up with such pearly restraint.

Some movies are too good to miss. Judy Berlin is one of them...It works like magic.

Tightly constructed and controlled.

Haunting and hopeful.

An almost perfectly realized poetic vision of people who continue in their everyday existence certain that life in a larger sense has passed them by.

Where "American Beauty" was smug and obvious in its dissection of suburban life, Judy Berlin is hilarious, heartbreaking and -- in its graciousness -- unlike any American film we've seen in a long time.

A comedy of the most delicately balanced perfection.

Beautiful little film.

Captures the emptiness of small-time lives as evocatively as Peter Bogdonavich's "Last Picture Show."

Etched with sensitivity and wit, above all with an unpatronizing compassion for ordinary people going about their business on an extraordinary day.