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.
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Old Joy (2006)
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Reviews Counted:82
Fresh:69
Rotten:13
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: A serene, melancholy beauty permeates this meditative portrait of deep friendship and faded glory.
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Top CriticMark has outgrown Kurt the way Kurt has outgrown his clothes, but they're both happy for an escape, each one numb from aging past simpler times that fostered their friendship.
11/02/06
Daniel London's slightly pained facial expressions say more about the stresses of impending fatherhood in two minutes than the likes of The Last Kiss manage in two hours.
11/02/06
We're embedded in the dampness of Reichardt's smoky forest, but not for long enough so we're lost like the pair.
10/28/06
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.
10/27/06
Top CriticAbout [Kelly Reichardt's] directing, after praising her simplicity, one has to praise her daring. To make this film took considerable conviction -- and, for an artist, conviction usually entails courage.
10/26/06
Top CriticSlow moving but ultimately quite touching.
10/20/06
Top CriticThe difference between Old Joy and most other recent indies: it matches its rhythms and visuals to its story, rather than simply telling a story on film.
10/19/06
It feels so real it hurts, and it's the perfect antidote to all those movies where all sorts of stuff blows up.
10/19/06
Top CriticReichardt's beautiful, contemplative movie is aching in the way it evokes loss and the alienation that often comes with adulthood.
10/13/06
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.
10/12/06
Top CriticThe movie's scale is minuscule, but the physical and emotional landscapes it travels are as broad, deep and mysterious as the human psyche itself.
10/12/06
Let us say simply that Ms. Reichardt’s brand of minimalism leaves me truly joyless.
10/11/06
Top Critic...[long] languid interludes are little more than pretty filler for a film that runs a mere 73 minutes...
10/07/06
Old Joy is another minimalist exercise that is at once visually stunning, quietly insightful and more than a little hard to endure.
10/04/06
...there's something about the mood of this film that grows on one.
10/01/06
A monster movie where the monster doesn't show up. zzzzzzzzz..
09/30/06
To my mind, there was a lot of wasted time -- repetitive shots of scenery from a moving car that felt more like padding than "atmosphere," as if the movie makers had to create a feature length for a project that just as easily and perhaps more effect
09/23/06
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09/23/06
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.
09/22/06
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August 24, 2006:
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