Evergreen (2004)

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06/18/05

For all kind and admirable reasons, Zentelis wants to portray America's working poor, but she only gets deep enough to pity them.

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09/09/04

While the film has striking moments, it feels padded with events that seem freighted with narrative weight but end up not mattering at all to the story.

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09/10/04

The dialogue is on-the-nose and its lessons are pedestrian, but the film remains a “working poor-trait” of poignancy and grace due to Addie Land's unself-conscious turn.

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10/05/04

Newcomer Land is a find, performing with guileless naturalism and resilient dignity.

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09/10/04

A sensitive film.

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09/09/04

It's a shame, because this could have been one of those little movies that made you feel so much for a young girl's struggle to find her place - this didn't.

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09/10/04

Too bad Zentelis didn't find someone else to write the script, because Evergreen combines all the cliched elements of a season's worth of a WB teen drama.

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09/09/04

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06/18/05

Although Zentelis doesn't always nail the strange rhythms of real life, she does show that she's on the right track.

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09/10/04