In the Bedroom

This is a debut of amazing heft from Todd Field, gripping from gentle opening to dark conclusion, and acted with the kind of raw feeling that has you fighting to hold back tears.

Goes the distance to avoid banalizing the dilemma of a reasonable couple unhinged by unreasonable events.

Intense, superbly acted chamber piece.

So emotionally pure and rigorous that you're more than willing to go along with it.

The directing debut of actor Todd Field (he played the pianist in Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut) favors the performances and they are among the best in modern American cinema.

The work lacks spontaneity and freshness. The spectator feels that he is being pulled by not-so invisible strings toward some inevitable denouement from the opening shots.

Much of the film's unsettling nature is comprised of sheer silence which is often the most dangerous element...