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Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: The experience of being so absorbed in a movie and the lives of the people in it, of trusting a director and a writer and actors to take me places completely unexpected, is so rare that I savored every unexpected turn and twist. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Deals with themes Eastwood has often explored before, but never so delicately or with as much sad wisdom: The way in which our past haunts our present, the lasting repercussions of violence and the cruel inexorability of fate. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: This is an extremely well-crafted and powerful film with searing performances from the all-star cast, most notably Sean Penn and Tim Robbins. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Mystic River is full of details that stay with you. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Crisply well-crafted and beautifully acted. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: Mystic River is the rare American movie that aspires to -- and achieves -- the full weight and darkness of tragedy. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Eastwood has handed Penn the role of a lifetime, and the actor scorches the screen with his anguish and angry vengefulness. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film and its actors are at their best when acknowledging the tragedy of inarticulate men banging their heads against fate. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Eastwood's best direction since Unforgiven and arguably the best, most mature work of his career. Read more
Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Too depressing to fill audiences with delight, but it does seem to validate questionable attitudes, especially an indifference to the suffering of innocent people and a willingness to shoot first and ask questions later. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: It is an impressive movie masquerading as an important one. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: A riveting story with complex situations and extremely well defined characters. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Smart, hard-charging, compassionate. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A classic whodunit. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: Contains so many layers that you'll want to see it more than once. It's one for the memory books. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: Where Lehane's novel seethes with emotionally charged subtext, Eastwood's workmanlike direction feels static -- fatally tasteful, embalmed in gravitas -- while his sporadic efforts at dramatic heightening come off as vulgar cliche. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: What you end up admiring about the film is its literacy, its authenticity ... and its refusal to let us down easily. Read more
Peter Rainer, New York Magazine/Vulture: Sean Penn is so frighteningly good in this movie that he outdoes even the best of his earlier work. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Resonates long after the last fade-out. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: A solid crime thriller. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: A solid whodunit, with disturbing, provocative, take-home insights into human nature. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A masterpiece of the first order. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Solid, rarely showy performances, meticulously recreated detective work and moments of pure unadulterated grief accent this whodunit, a movie that will have those who haven't read the book fooled for much of its length. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: River leads moviegoers on a suspense-filled, sometimes painful adventure marked by great performances. Read more
Carla Meyer, San Francisco Chronicle: At nearly 2 1/2 hours, Mystic River proves that a mystery need not be taut to be riveting. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: For all its missteps, Mystic River gets the big things right: It turns you inside out with grief. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The performances are exquisite. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: It is a movie to closely watch and to savour; the confident direction and the flawless ensemble performances are, quite simply, worthy of Oscars. Read more
Geoff Andrew, Time Out: It is in many ways Eastwood's tightest movie for some time, and certainly his darkest since Unforgiven; indeed, the ending offers as corrosive an assessment of the limits of American justice as anything in his career. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: Mystic River is a complex, deeply ambiguous study of lifelong ties, moral accountability and the flukes of destiny. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Eastwood's 24th directorial feature is his most ambitious in a decade. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: If Mystic River is just a bit overplayed, a tad too highly pitched, it still resonates with grief and fury and feeling. Read more