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This is grim, bleak material that at times is monotonous, but its woe feels authentic. Dec 14, 2012 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review…
This is grim, bleak material that at times is monotonous, but its woe feels authentic.
Kyle Smith
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. Dec 13, 2012 | Rating: 3/5
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.
Manohla Dargis
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. Dec 13, 2012 | Full Review…
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.
Mark Jenkins
"Yelling" is a prosaic look at a hard life. Like Sweetness, the movie finds its way by instinct. Dec 13, 2012 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review…
"Yelling" is a prosaic look at a hard life. Like Sweetness, the movie finds its way by instinct.
Joe Neumaier
Little more than a résumé film for all involved, it certainly feels more Park City than Bushwick. Dec 11, 2012 | Full Review…
Little more than a résumé film for all involved, it certainly feels more Park City than Bushwick.
Michael Atkinson
Yelling to the Sky drips with a strange but sometimes moving nostalgia for environs its characters clearly want to escape. Mar 17, 2011 | Full Review…
Yelling to the Sky drips with a strange but sometimes moving nostalgia for environs its characters clearly want to escape.
John DeFore
The film avoids most of its genre's pratfalls, though it also shows little interest in transcending them. Dec 8, 2012 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
The film avoids most of its genre's pratfalls, though it also shows little interest in transcending them.
Michael Nordine
Even though 'Yelling to the Sky' tumbles, Victoria Mahoney shows great promise as a director. Aug 25, 2011 | Rating: C | Full Review…
Even though 'Yelling to the Sky' tumbles, Victoria Mahoney shows great promise as a director.
Clay Cane
Though the film and its director undoubtedly have a great deal of heart and passion, too many scenes feel like actors' workshop exercises. Feb 14, 2011 | Full Review…
Though the film and its director undoubtedly have a great deal of heart and passion, too many scenes feel like actors' workshop exercises.
Lee Marshall
Strong on texture but taxingly light on narrative. Feb 14, 2011 | Full Review…
Strong on texture but taxingly light on narrative.
Peter Debruge
If 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.
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