Critic Reviews

Sister is as bleak and as beautiful as its snowy, mountainous setting.

Sister may not arrive at a happy ending, but the lack of resolution -- capped off by the powerful last image --completes its journey to a place of rousing emotional clarity.

Her film is closer to Truffaut's "The 400 Blows" in the way it gets inside the gumption and desperation of childhood lived on the edge. It's a terrific, bracingly sad movie.

The high-low setting effectively reinforces the emotional geography of both lost souls. Gillian Anderson makes a brief, well-placed appearance as one of the rich.

Director Ursula Meier's Sister is a penetrating study of familial bonds, quietly devastating in parts, beautiful on whole and destined to make you fall in love with a practiced and entirely amoral preteen thief.

It's delicately made, yet forceful in its delicacy.

Haunting and sad. And absolutely worth seeing.

In an unusually subtle performance by a child actor, Kacey Mottet Klein stars as a crafty ragamuffin.

Meier is clearly carving out a path all her own; the next one should be a gem.

Trading the cooler, more emotionally detached style and vibe that characterized "Home," her debut feature, about a family falling apart, Ms. Meier quietly goes for the emotional jugular in Sister.