Miller's film is bold and hearty, but it's also a ham-fisted wallop to the senses.
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03/04/03
Personal Velocity (2002)
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Reviews Counted:99
Fresh:68
Rotten:31
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Uneven, but a keenly observed and well-acted film about three women's lives.
Runtime: 2 hrs 5 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Three very different women confront life-changing decisions in this film derived from Rebecca Miller's book of short stories. Each woman has reached a turning point in her life. Delia (Kyra... [More]
Starring: Fairuza Balk, Parker Posey, Kyra Sedgwick, John Ventimiglia
Director: Rebecca Miller
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03/31/03
Top CriticMiller comes at film with bracing intelligence and a vision both painterly and literary.
10/26/02
Woefully pretentious.
11/22/02
Very psychoanalytical -- provocatively so -- and also refreshingly literary.
12/13/02
The acting is uniformly excellent, with Kyra Sedgwick and Fairuza Balk in particular deserving to be singled out for praise.
11/18/02
An intensely moving and oftentimes haunting film.
08/21/02
...creates a visceral sense of its characters' lives and conflicted emotions that carries it far above...what could have been a melodramatic, Lifetime Channel-style anthology.
11/20/02
These mini-dramas about women trying to find a way into the future point out how difficult it is for people to accept the generosity and kindness of others.
11/22/02
Velocity represents everything wrong with ''independent film'' as a commodified, sold-out concept on the American filmmaking scene.
12/06/02
As a work of fiction Miller's film doesn't always have the maturity to stand up to its own convictions, but Sedgwick, Posey, and Balk make the whole experience worthwhile.
12/10/02
In this involving film of three decidedly different women, filmmaker Rebecca Miller has distilled some gripping character portraits.
08/21/02
Top CriticTaken individually or collectively, the stories never add up to as much as they promise.
12/05/02
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