The start of Yellow Handkerchief is promising, but the film declines the closer it gets to the inevitable finally. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 19, 2022

[A] lyric narrative style that is celebrated through the strength of [cinematographer] Chris Menges' stunning imager.

Full Review | Nov 3, 2019

Although director Uduayan Prasad frames our three protagonists in beautiful bayou scenery and delicate sunlight, he does not give us enough to want to spend time with these people.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 19, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Taking time off from vampire infatuation but still into Native male magnets, Kristen Stewart does a snobby sexpot, while the bayou weepie conjures a relentless alien place where crocodiles, snakes and eccentric when not unhinged redneck humans roam free

Full Review | Oct 14, 2010

Just as the relationships at the core of this drama, The Yellow Handkerchief is one big compromise. Make do with the lackluster parts and receive something uniquely pleasant.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 13, 2010

A well-acted little film, The Yellow Handkerchief captures the loneliness of these characters and the sparks of hope they harbor, despite everything.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 11, 2010

This uplifting film is an indie gem with a wonderful payoff that will bring you to tears. The acting is superlative and makes this emotionally moving experience good to the last drop.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2010

This is basically brooding people doing awkward things in a humid environment.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 2, 2010

When The Yellow Handkerchief finally hooks into the meat of Hamill's source story, the narrative tension puts enough wind in the film's sails to arrive at its corny but sentimentally satisfying conclusion.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 2, 2010

William Hurt and Kristen Stewart and a long, sleepy road

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Apr 2, 2010

Unfortunately, the precision and presence Hurt brings to the table aren't enough to carry this warmed-over Southern melodrama.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Apr 1, 2010

The only positive thing about the aimless film The Yellow Handkerchief is the idea that William Hurt may be ready for his Jeff Bridges moment.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 1, 2010

The unhurried direction of Udayan Prasad and the unafraid choices of the sure-footed cast keep this character-driven drama afloat.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 1, 2010

Never feels like anything but a movie with its characters who constantly say what they're feeling and doing and it never once feels genuine or organic.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2010

The Yellow Handkerchief is a love story. Two, really. At its center is the sweetly fractured ticking of a broken heart on the mend.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2010

The story arc of Handkerchief is entirely predictable, and the direction is pedestrian. But its pleasures are to be found in the graceful acting of Hurt and Bello...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 12, 2010

The Yellow Handkerchief is a surprisingly moving drama -- a throwback to the small, character-driven indies of yesteryear.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2010

Even Stewart, an untutored colt of an actress who can toggle between natural grace and utter haplessness, finds her groove here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 12, 2010

It's a road movie, so everyone argues, then confides in one another, then come out besties in the end. And if you can't guess where the central, broken romance is heading, finding out is as easy as a song.

Full Review | Mar 11, 2010