The strength of Away From Her rests on the laurels of an excellent director and Julie Christie whose demanding role is interpreted with subtlety, humor and wisdom. Polley said she only had Christie in mind when the film was to be cast.

Away From Her is that rare movie that breaks hearts with finesse and reserve, not through brute force.

It's nice to see serious issues other than crime and drugs in the movies and even nicer to see a filmmaking talent like Sarah Polley blossoming.

If the Oscars were really looking for Best Actress, it couldn't go wrong looking this way.

Lovely and cold as a Nordic winter sky, Away From Her is a lacerating, tough movie that's sometimes hard to watch - and impossible to forget

Tackling a sorrowful subject with compassion and even an occasional laugh, actress Sarah Polley makes an impressive full-length debut as writer and director ...

A magnanimous and devastating directorial debut from the young Canadian actress Sarah Polley.

Both careful and contrived, Away from Her paints marriage as a series of losses, fulfillments, and compromises, infinitely rewarding and painful.

"Away From Her" is one of the great love stories of recent movies, striking because it takes place near the end of a love affair's long journey, rather than at the beginning as so many romances do.

At the heart of Sarah Polley's impressive directorial debut is that luminous iconic figure of the 1960s, Julie Christie.