N/A

Candid but hermetic NYC emotional aftershocks Of 9/11.

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04/29/07

N/A

No film that I've yet seen better captures the dismal mood that gripped the city in the wake of the [9/11] attacks...

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10/13/06

2.5/4

While it's not always successful at doing so, this film does have its perceptive, thoughtful moments. And it features one of the best ensemble casts in recent memory.

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09/15/06

3.5/4

[The characters], like us, are looking for answers in a rare movie that boldly and thoughtfully asks the right questions.

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09/15/06

B-

There are amusing moments sprinkled throughout the film, a few genuine laughs, and some nicely played dramatic scenes.

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09/12/06

B-

Not all the little stories and vignettes work (some seem almost pointless), but most of the performances, especially a haughty luncheon under a veil of politeness with Gyllenhaal and Falco, are spot on, involving and revealing.

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08/31/06

A-

It may be the 9/11 movie to which the most people can relate. For most of us, that date wasn't about personal heroics or losing loved ones or survival. It was about processing the impossible and realizing that life, with all its ups and downs, must go on.

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08/25/06

C

Leiner...wants to say something important, but his cinematic and narrative technique isn't up to the task.

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08/24/06

N/A

Yet -- and quite in spite of its plinky piano score -- The Great New Wonderful conjures occasional vividness, irrepressible pain or insight.

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08/18/06

86/100

There's an emotional truth to TGNW that can be denied or ignored, and it comes through if you give the movie a chance.

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08/18/06

2.5/4

While the film rarely imparts a true sense of messy everyday feelings and the strife of real life, the fine actors take your mind off the shortcomings.

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08/17/06

3/5

The movie itself is having an identity crisis; it tries to make 9/11 a significant day in these people's lives and it has nothing to do with that day, both at the same time.

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08/15/06

3/4

It's in the Magnolia/Short Cuts vein and, although it's not as good as those classics, the characters and their dilemmas are absorbing.

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08/10/06

3/4

Set on the one-year anniversary of the twin towers' collapse, the drama interweaves five stories about New Yorkers. It's a testament to the city's resolve to resume life as normal.

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08/10/06

N/A

[Maggie] Gyllenhaal ... slips into character with greater ease than any other young American actress now in the movies.

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07/26/06

3/5

This is a film that never really says what's it's about, and may in fact not be about much of anything other than the zeitgeist of the era. Which, if you think about it, is plenty.

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07/23/06

N/A

Writer Sam Catlin and director Danny Leiner have fashioned an alert, shrewdly observed portrait of a moment in time.

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07/20/06

N/A

There are good performances from nearly everyone, particularly Shah and Gyllenhaal, and the sub-90-minute running time whips right by; but there's nothing extraordinary here either.

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07/20/06

3/5

Better character-connection would inject this well photographed episodic journey around the island with a higher level of dramatic justification.

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07/17/06