Moonlight Mile

Its original look at loyalty and loss subsides into a forgettable love story, leading it out of the darkness and straight into schmaltzville.

With a relentless playlist of rock stand-bys, the film careers between jaunty and maudlin.

Moonlight Mile might be the single most honest film ever made on the subject of grief. Not about death or dying, loss or regret, but about the grieving process itself: the highs, lows, in-betweens and the way all of them wrap, loop and intertwine.

Donnie Brighto is what they should have called this feeble, sucrose emotional drama starring Jake Gyllenhaal.

In addition to the strong performances, the script is teeming with lovely, knowing moments, and the camera moves artfully.

An honestly intimate and genuinely funny account of bereavement.

This very small movie quiets its cast down and guides them into subtle, human-scaled performances.

Moonlight Mile takes you on an emotional journey, showing different types of grieving that all end in the same place - a place of hope and strength, pointing us into the future rather than the past.

"Moonlight Mile" is about livable compromises and the doubt and panic that linger once life's plans scatter and persist even as they settle again. Moreover, it's about the hardship of survivors honoring someone from whom they're best off moving on.