Rabbit Hole

"As a viewing experience, the film is by turns heartrending and stultifying, but mostly stultifying."

"I know all this sounds like a mournful dirge, but in fact, Rabbit Hole is entertaining and surprisingly amusing, under the circumstances."

"The sheer excruciating, stultifying good taste of this movie is almost unbearable..."

"It sounds grim but it isn't. The script... demonstrates an extreme, occasionally comic, distaste for the sentimentality often provoked by other people's grief."

"It does what most stage-to-screen adaptations do not. It works."

"The problem with Rabbit Hole is that it plays at one unrelentingly gloomy frequency..."

"The piece as a whole feels earnest and well-meaning but rarely compelling..."

"The canniest thing about it is that it carves shrewd and lively dramatic arcs out of souls who are too damaged to feel their own feelings."

"A searing drama..."

"Despite its respectful centre the exploitative aspects displayed are hard to ignore."

"Everyone monologues, philosophises, weeps... No one has a human quirk or foible."

"Quite remarkable."

"Eckhart works close to the top of his range here... but Kidman simply goes above and beyond."

"Although it is achingly sad, Rabbit Hole is not maudlin or depressing."

"The film cries out for moments that are not about the couple's search for re-engagement."

"A moving and truly beautiful film."

"If you must watch the portrait of a marriage strained to breaking-point, try... Blue Valentine, where you at least feel sorry for the unhappy couple..."

"Kidman tries too hard... making Rabbit Hole a much less effective vehicle for loss and reparation than it could have been."