Heart-wrenching and poignant, simple and dignified, GRACE IS GONE gently speaks to the heart and soul while the world and war ravages around us.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 24, 2011

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 17, 2011

Una pelcula intimista, humana y conmovedora, con gran actuacin de John Cusack y estupenda banda sonora compuesta por Clint Eastwood.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 19, 2009

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Cusack really steps into the character of the uptight, conservative, grief-stricken Stanley and the little girls who play his daughters are amazing.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 2, 2008

This heartfelt film is a bitter-sweet snapshot of a man and the special relationship he cements with his daughters as he takes them on a spur-of-the-moment road-trip.

Full Review | Aug 14, 2008

The power of the ending comes from the inherent pain of loss, but it's no feat to recognize how emotional this would be, to tell us it's coming and to dangle it in front of us for an hour and a half.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2008

...packs an emotional wallop that ultimately belies its low-key sensibilities...

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jun 1, 2008

Depicts a side of the Iraq war, the American home front, that has been barely touched in other Iraq war movies.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 27, 2008

the mood is as overcast as the sky that follows the Phillips' as they head for Florida and the inevitable moment of revelation. Grace Is Gone is a downer worthy of a super-sized box of Kleenex

Full Review | Mar 17, 2008

This isn't so much a film about picking up the pieces after a tragedy, but instead an extended story of the pieces that fell...

Full Review | Original Score: 5/10 | Mar 4, 2008

Despite the strength of the cast (in particular O'Keefe, who's making her film debut here and shows tremendous promise), it's hard to muster much enthusiasm for Grace Is Gone.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Good intentions can only go so far.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 25, 2008

Strouse gives the movie an industrial sparseness, which only increases its intimacy.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 24, 2008

It makes its points and is more cultural evidence of just how harshly history is likely to judge our ill-fated adventure in the Middle East.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jan 24, 2008

The drawn out process in this character vehicle runs on low grade dramatic fuel.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2008

It's a narrative strategy that neither informs, challenges nor heals.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/6 | Jan 18, 2008

This is, most subtly, Grace Is Gone's abiding theme, the ways that overwhelming loss bring into focus what remains, as well as the cultural frameworks by which moral judgments are made.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2008