
Yelling to the Sky
2011, Drama, 1h 34m
11 Reviews 250+ RatingsYou might also like
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Sweetness O'Hara
Latonya Williams
Gordon O'Hara
Coleman
Lil' Man
Fatima Harris
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Critic Reviews for Yelling to the Sky
All Critics (11) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (4) | Rotten (7)
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This is grim, bleak material that at times is monotonous, but its woe feels authentic.
December 14, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review… -
Not much happens in story terms, but the film swirls with emotions that make it by turns grim and amusing, heavy and light, obvious and vague.
December 13, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 -
Mahoney barely explains her characters' circumstances, which makes the movie obliquely intriguing. But whenever the story comes into focus, it's revealed as fairly conventional.
December 13, 2012 | Full Review… -
"Yelling" is a prosaic look at a hard life. Like Sweetness, the movie finds its way by instinct.
December 13, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Little more than a rsum film for all involved, it certainly feels more Park City than Bushwick.
December 11, 2012 | Full Review… -
The film avoids most of its genre's pratfalls, though it also shows little interest in transcending them.
December 8, 2012 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Audience Reviews for Yelling to the Sky
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Dec 28, 2014If every family is each unhappy in their own unique way, then the O'Hara family has hit the jackpot. First, Ola(Antonique Smith) and Sweetness(Zoe Kravitz) have to face bullies on the way home from school, before having to suffer under the hand of their abusive and alcoholic father(Jason Clarke), as their mother(Yolonda Ross) is pretty much catatonic. And then Ola gets pregnant which takes her away from her sister. So to recap. We have bullying, alcoholism, physical abuse, mental illness, and teenage pregnancy. Did I leave anything out? Wait, there's also drug abuse, yet to come. In other words, with "Yelling to the Sky," there is just one awful and miserable situation without any kind of plot or story to really speak of. So, that just goes to show you how good an actor Jason Clarke really is, as he gives a master tutorial on how to build a character out of absolutely nothing. And I have never been so glad to see Tim Blake Nelson in anything before this.Walter M Super Reviewer
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