Beneath the Harvest Sky
Tribeca Film | Release Date: May 2, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
VarietyPeter DebrugeApr 23, 2014
Beneath the Harvest Sky offers a heartbreakingly authentic, vividly realized account of adolescent frustration and yearning. Read full review
75
The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicMay 19, 2014
On both technical and thematic levels, the filmmakers have succeeded in using the tools of cinema to carve out an authentic look at troubled youth, and the choices we have to make in order to steer away from the wrong path. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyKeith StaskiewiczMay 1, 2014
The film’s first half feels almost as directionless as its characters, but the detailed specificity of the milieu and story proves engrossing. Read full review
70
Village VoiceZachary WigonApr 29, 2014
Gaudet and Pullapilly have a background in documentaries, and there's a convincing naturalism to their storytelling. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyMay 1, 2014
Like "Winter’s Bone" and "Frozen River," the movie attempts to re-mystify a handful of old tropes—the tragic snitch, crime as a family business—by placing them in unfamiliar terrain. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTy BurrMay 8, 2014
While the climax of Beneath the Harvest Sky is a jumble of crosscutting, thunderstorms, and an inconveniently collapsing house, the movie never loses the pulse of people and tragedies it knows too well. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineNick PriggeApr 27, 2014
It flourishes in the spaces between the plot's necessary setups and subsequent payoffs, which is nearly enough to redeem the film if not for the narrative going belly up in the third act. Read full review
60
The New York TimesStephen HoldenMay 1, 2014
Beneath the Harvest Sky reaches a dramatic climax that is so rushed and confusing, you are left scratching your head. But for all its missteps, the film feels authentic. Through thick and thin, it stubbornly maintains a thorny integrity. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijApr 23, 2014
The rock-solid bond between the film’s two drifting 17-year-olds... is the film’s undeniable highlight but the true depth of their friendship crystallizes quite late and is too often obscured by a subplot involving minor characters caught up in a cross-border drug running operation. Read full review
50
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeApr 30, 2014
Directors Aron Gaudet and Gita Pullapilly overload their too-long film with subplots. Yet the actors — including a terrific Aiden Gillen (“Game of Thrones”) as Casper’s no-good father — perform as though unaware that any of this is a cliché. Read full review
50
The DissolveMike D'AngeloApr 23, 2014
Cohen and McAuliffe fail to distinguish their characters from the umpteen previous iterations of “sensible guy and his hotheaded best friend,” and the film winds up less interested in their relationship than in the compelling details of the smuggling operation, with which they’re only tangentially associated. Read full review
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