I saw this film at the Austin Film Festival, and for the most part, I was captivated while watching it, but afterwards, I started nitpicking about all these things I thought were weak. Reading this Reeler review, it started to make sense. I don’t normally trash movies, but I’m getting weary from all the average to poor films out there. I want to see something good in my limited viewing time. Suggestions?

Reservation Road by Vadim Rizov, “Adapted from John Burnham Schwartz’s novel, Terry George’s Reservation Road — like In The Bedroom and House Of Sand And Fog, its immediate predecessors in the domestic-tragedy-from-respected-fiction-source micro-genre — is overwrought and unabashedly allegorical, begging us to consider the implausible events on screen as a fresh and convincing examination of how revenge corrodes the soul. This movie corroded mine, at any rate.”