amateurcriticted

Great aural and visual style, wonderful comedic performances by Mr. Clooney and Tim Blake Nelson in particular, and that unique Coen brother style add up to a most satisfying experience in the cinema.

Some critics have found the treatment of the South offensive, and it must be said that Bible salesmen have rarely been less sympathetically portrayed, but as long as you don't check your sense of humor at the door I'm mystified by how anyone could fail to appreciate and enjoy this film.

The music was tremendous and and I was grateful to be exposed to it. The "Soggy Bottom Boys" put the Backstreet Boys to shame! Should get "Best Supporting Performance by a Toad" as well.

8 -- Highly recommended.

An odd little movie with little bursts of cameo acting exploding like an inconsistent fireworks display around Nicholson's dark central performance.

Ms. Redgrave is spectacularly good in a tiny role but not all of Mr. Penn's family, friends and associates that populate this movie are quite as successful, and a few of the performances by some perhaps too familiar faces (Rourke, Stanton) are more distracting than effective.

The tone of the film is relentlessly downbeat and the ending is contrived and unsatisfying, but all in all it's an interesting chapter in the development of one of our very best actors wearing his director's hat.

My favorite movie of 2000 – a delightful and moving experience.

"You Can Count On Me" is a small but precious gem of a movie and one of only two films I returned to the cinema to see for a second time during the 2000 year.

Brilliantly written and directed by Mr. Lonergan, this little jewel features outstanding performances by Ms. Linney and Mr. Ruffalo in rarely explored territory -- a heartbreakingly real and very adult brother-sister relationship.

Intense but highly naturalistic, entertaining but thought provoking, comedic and dramatic in almost equal measure – what a refreshing delight this movie is! No special effects, no heroes -- just genuine human emotions and great intelligence spilling off the screen.

Depending upon what looks for in a movie, this is a nearly perfect film experience.