Rails & Ties
Warner Independent Pictures (WIP) | Release Date: October 26, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
10
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
The film's best and most carefully shaded performance belongs to Bacon. Read full review
63
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
I found the opening third tremendously intriguing and involving, I thought the emotions were so real they could be touched, but then the film lost its way and fell into the clutches of sentimental melodrama. Read full review
60
VarietyTodd McCarthy
Reserved, careful and largely predictable in the way it plays out its wrenching emotional crises. Read full review
60
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Everything looks professional if undistinguished. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Alison Eastwood, whose good looks and last name have served her well as a Hollywood actress, makes her directing debut with this mediocre cancer drama. Read full review
50
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Alison Eastwood's debut feature is slow, deliberate, assured, and shot with a graceful feel for place--none of which is enough to overcome the creaky themes that tie this hackneyed domestic drama together with fearsome symmetry. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Rails & Ties is like one bad TV movie that slammed into another. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
While it features three strong performance and the debut of a promising filmmaker, the story line is obvious and rather melodramatic. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
As lovely as some of the footage looks and as committed as are the three lead performances, they serve only to make Rails & Ties play like an exceptionally well-acted and well-made Lifetime movie. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A heartfelt but dramatically flat portrait of a couple grappling with one tragedy whose lives are profoundly affected by the outcome of another. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael Phillips
All the astute acting in the world can’t bring such a preposterous story into the station on time and intact. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Nobody feels anything they're not explicitly told to feel. Not even the audience. Read full review
25
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film rings so consistently false that it's more likely to induce snickers and eye-rolling. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
The only conceivable reason for Warner Bros. to (barely) release this mush is as a favor to Clint Eastwood, whose daughter Alison directed. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Chock-full of holes. Read full review
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