The Sweet Hereafter

"...a frozen lake. Promising compensation and retribution to the grief-stricken parents if they allow him to represent them in..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

SXSW Announces Film Award Winners

Shithouse takes top narrative honors

"...Innovative new college comedy-drama Shithouse and sensitive grief counselling documentary An Elephant in the Room have taken..."

March 24, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

One in a Crowd: That Day

Deeply personal Austin drama seeks help

"...Grief is a deeply personal and individual experience, one that..."

July 18, 2015 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Mourning After

Kelly Daniela Norris on the unexpected paths of grief and love

"...next project, to discuss this Cuban travelogue filled with grief, beauty, and unexpected romance...."

Oct. 25, 2013 Screens Feature by Jessi Cape

SXSW Film Review: Are We Good?

In candid doc, Marc Maron opens up about grief

"...podcast, you’re probably aware of the immense amount of grief that he went through after his late girlfriend, filmmaker..."

March 12, 2025 SXSW Post by Jenny Nulf

SXSW Film Review: Language Lessons

Natalie Morales and Mark Duplass excel in this Zoom drama

"...With as much grief as we’ve all processed over the last year, and..."

March 18, 2021 Screens Post by Selome Hailu

SXSW Interview: Without Getting Killed or Caught

Tamara Saviano on the bonds between Guy, Susanna, and Townes

"...1997, Susanna Clark pleads to the songwriter in her grief for the inevitability she recognized to come. That voice..."

March 18, 2021 Screens Post by Doug Freeman

2020 Oscar-Nominated Short Films: Animated

This year's Academy-loved cartoons push the boundaries of the medium

"...Its underlying sense of grief and loss is matched by "Memorable," Bruno Collet's glimpse..."

Jan. 31, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Honeyland

The sweet and the bitter of life as a Macedonian apiarist

"...messy glory), and a document of so many things: grief, loss, happiness, and joy...."

Aug. 30, 2019 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

1985

Stunning AIDS drama looks beyond the disease and into grief

"...buried beneath Adrian’s calm exterior is a world of grief and confusion, and spending time with his loved ones..."

Nov. 30, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Beautiful Boy

Steve Carell soars above this overly-earnest addiction biography

"...on a battlefield; here he is frozen in pre-emptive grief, the constant pain of knowing that his son is..."

Oct. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Chappaquiddick

The car crash that changed America.

"...In a way, the film is a portrait of grief (Bobby Kennedy had been assassinated just a year prior),..."

April 13, 2018 Movie Review by Danielle White

Nostalgia

A life well lived examined in a film uninspiringly made.

"...perhaps that speaks more toward the subject matter of grief and moving on, giving everyone a showcase to sink..."

March 2, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

In the Fade

Revenge, German immigration, and neo-Nazis clash

"...new film In the Fade. The loss and the grief of a woman who is descending into madness following..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

Frances McDormand gives a searing performance as vengeance personified

"...months earlier has yet to be solved. In her grief, she decides on a plan to shame the small-town..."

Nov. 17, 2017 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Dark Song

Black magic goes awry in this taut thriller

"...between mother and son, and the unholy price of grief gone wild. It is, in fact, an instant classic,..."

May 26, 2017 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Julieta

Almodóvar tracks the stages of a woman's life

"...Chekhovian narratives by linking them thematically through elements of grief, guilt, and loss. Like his humanist masterpiece All About..."

Jan. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck shines in this heartfelt drama

"...between Lee and Patrick, both of them dealing with grief: Lee from the perspective of his haunted past and..."

Dec. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shut In

Naomi Watts stars in ho-hum thriller

"...taut, begins to fray even more. Is it merely grief coupled to the lack of a good night’s sleep..."

Nov. 18, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Demon

This astute Polish ghost movie is an instant genre classic

"...descends into a maelstrom of high-spirited bedlam, complete with grief, trauma, loss, and quite a lot of hideously apropos..."

Sept. 30, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Other Side of the Door

The portal between the living and dead is once again breached

"...of the Door, a horror film in which a grief-stricken mother opens a forbidden portal between the living and..."

March 11, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Boy

Horrors: A nanny finds that her new charge is a life-sized doll

"...offspring is a doll, apparently designed to manage their grief over losing their flesh-and-blood son in a mysterious fire..."

Jan. 29, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Once I Was a Beehive

Pleasant summer-camp film checks its religious ideology at the tent

"...narrative of a girl coming to terms with her grief...."

Oct. 30, 2015 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

As Above/So Below

There are things in the catacombs beneath Paris that should remain underground.

"...Motivated by a combination of scholarly curiosity, lingering grief, and basic survival, Scarlett leads the charge downward, but..."

Sept. 5, 2014 Movie Review by William Goss

Godzilla

These monsters have more audience appeal than their human co-stars – which is good and bad.

"...of the plant explosion. Presumed to be crazed with grief over the meltdown and loss of his wife (a..."

May 16, 2014 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell finds finds another family in distress; Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence kept it consistently fun.

"...meets Tiffany (Lawrence), a young widow raw with raging grief, they trade rat-a-tat-like their past experiences with prescription drugs...."

Nov. 16, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Delicacy

This French-language dramedy stars Audrey Tatou as a grieving widow who is trying to re-enter the flow of life.

"...As the story of a woman wading through unimaginable grief, Delicacy is too slight – and, yes, too delicate..."

April 27, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Hunter

Willem Dafoe plays a Canadian tracker hunting presumed-extinct prey in Tasmania, but soon he's stalking humans as well.

"...the forest and the mother is hemmed in by grief (and on top of that, the cabin's generator doesn't..."

April 6, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Woman in Black

Daniel Radcliffe jumps from Hogwarts to this movie's haunted mansion where he stars as a young widower under siege from a malevolent ghost.

"...a widower and father of a young boy, whose grief for his wife (who, in classic Victorian fashion, died..."

Feb. 3, 2012 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

"...while his mother (Bullock) shambles at home, near-catatonic with grief. Daldry and his adapter, Eric Roth (Forrest Gump, The..."

Jan. 20, 2012 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

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