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Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Fresh as spring water and warm as sunlight, it steeps us in the beauties we will always miss, if we keep dividing the world into winners and losers. Read more
John Hartl, Seattle Times: The characters stayed with me, and I'm glad I took a second look now that it's opening for a two-week run at Northwest Film Forum. This time around, its sense of humor seemed much more effective -- as did its less-is-more style. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A film of microscopic mood shifts, at once open-ended and precise. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Old Joy may be built around a road trip, but it's also a movie about two roads -- and two souls -- diverging. Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Old Joy doesn't try for too much, but its subtle victories leave plenty to savor. Read more
Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic: It plays for a scant 73 minutes, but if feels as long as a Wagner opera. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: The movie explores the increasingly coarse line between nostalgia and acceptance for the way things are, without exclamatory revelation and uproarious self-pity. It's Sideways for realists. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: Captures the weary mood of a generation that's crested its peak along with an era, quietly making a case for how well suited film can be to capturing the finer points of human interaction while preserving their mystery. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Subdued, artistic, with beautifully nuanced performances that are as true as they are often elusive of commercial triumph. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: It's in all the moments where little happens that Reichardt is most amazing, investing even a gas-station pit stop with perfect emotional pitch. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: The movie captures gorgeous mountain scenery with the simplicity of an Ozu film. It also benefits from the naturalistic performances. Read more
Ella Taylor, L.A. Weekly: The movie's scale is minuscule, but the physical and emotional landscapes it travels are as broad, deep and mysterious as the human psyche itself. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Every frame of Old Joy bespeaks a yearning for a more user-friendly day, when gas was less than $2.50 a gallon and there was always a used record store to unload your scratched vinyl. Read more
David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Against a radiant backdrop of decay and rebirth, nothing needs to be said; everything in this lovely film is crystalline. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Kelly Reichardt's minimalist buddy film about two former roommates on an overnight camping trip in Oregon's Cascade Mountains features some of the year's most beautiful scenery and two of its most wooden characters. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Old Joy (adapted by writer Jonathan Raymond from his own short story) is only 76 minutes long, but it has the contemplative power of Buddhist meditation. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: Slow moving but ultimately quite touching. Read more
Jason Anderson, Globe and Mail: Wise, resonant and genuinely special. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: The real resonance of Reichardt's at once lean and profound little movie is that, without saying anything directly, it can seem to say so much. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: A camping trip shared by two longtime friends provides the basis for a beautifully nuanced study in friendship and the irretrievability of the past in Old Joy. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Open-ended as it may appear, it has a crushing finality. For all the wool-gathering and guitar-noodling, this road movie is at least as tender as it is ironic. Read more
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post: It feels so real it hurts, and it's the perfect antidote to all those movies where all sorts of stuff blows up. Read more