Ballast (2008) - Critic Reviews - Page 3 of 3

41-52 of 52 Reviews

Sort by:

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Andrea Chase (1,182) for Killer Movie Reviews (1,182) on 28 Oct 2008

A small gem of humanity brought into sharp focus without sentiment…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Ron Wilkinson (582) for Monsters and Critics (513) on 24 Oct 2008

Rating high in the unvarnished truth department, Ballast does not bring enough entertainment to the table to merit the price of admission…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Nick Davis (360) for Nick's Flick Picks (358) on 21 Oct 2008

A doleful movie that often has a lump in its throat, but it's also a poetic and illuminating movie that earns its attitudes and effects, including…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Walter V. Addiego (363) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 16 Oct 2008

Ballast is truly a winter's tale, set in a bleak and rainy corner of the Mississippi Delta and recounting the story of three African Americans…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Laura Clifford (2,742) for Reeling Reviews (4,376) on 15 Oct 2008

marks a new talent to watch, but this one is for patient art house audiences willing to overlook story development in favor of tone and mood…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Matthew Sorrento (173) for IdentityTheory (22) on 10 Oct 2008

The audio is occupied by only the sounds the characters make ... moments of silence open up an emotional void…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Lewis Beale (134) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 07 Oct 2008

It's an impressive directorial debut that will leave viewers speechless at the end--not necessarily in a good sense…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Armond White (604) for New York Press (561) on 30 Sep 2008

Ballast (another Frozen River, wallowing in the miseries of the underclass) is designed to provoke bourgeois moviegoers' pity…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Kam Williams (1,272) for NewsBlaze (855) on 29 Sep 2008

A slice-of-life adventure featuring a principal cast of non-professionals whose gritty naivete manage to imbue the production with a palpable…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Prairie Miller (985) for NewsBlaze (855) on 13 Sep 2008

Stinging emotional truth and raw grit, stark in its simplicity…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 May 2008

A quintessentially American story that unmistakably echoes European art house cinema, combining the aesthetic purity of France's Robert Bresson…

Read Review

Review of Ballast (2008)

By Karina Longworth (242) for SpoutBlog (66) on 04 Feb 2008

Beautifully composed...it gets you by playing hard to get…

Read Review

Page 3 of 3

More reviews of this movie:

Ballast (2008) Movie Reviews (151)
Ballast (2008) User Reviews (99)

Movies you might like:

Crash

1996

53%33 Reviews

Lolita

1962

78%569 Reviews

Doctor Zhivago

1965

78%601 Reviews

The Hustler

1961

84%587 Reviews

In My Father's Den

2004

77%121 Reviews

Good Morning, Vietnam

1987

74%505 Reviews

Antonia's Line

1995

78%170 Reviews

A Few Good Men

1992

76%692 Reviews

The Prestige

2006

82%1,096 Reviews

Pandora's Box

1929

79%197 Reviews

The Queen

2006

75%877 Reviews

Don't Look Now

1973

75%774 Reviews

Popular Movies Right Now

Barbarian

2022

72%115 Reviews

The Batman

2022

75%430 Reviews

A Simple Favor

2018

69%617 Reviews

Ford v Ferrari

2019

81%171 Reviews

Mad Max: Fury Road

2015

83%1,378 Reviews

Split

2017

71%1,218 Reviews

Babylon

2022

68%144 Reviews

Dark Waters

2019

76%68 Reviews

Fifty Shades of Grey

2015

43%1,173 Reviews

The Prodigy

2019

53%39 Reviews

Movies You Viewed Recently

Ballast

2008

74%151 Reviews

Edward Scissorhands

1990

81%767 Reviews

Jungle Fever

1994

67%209 Reviews

Look Who's Talking Too

1990

44%308 Reviews

We Are Family

2012

46%44 Reviews

Ride with the Devil

1999

67%201 Reviews

Cannibal Holocaust

1980

50%606 Reviews

The Promotion

2008

51%464 Reviews

This Is Where I Leave You

2014

60%809 Reviews

La Haine

1995

86%508 Reviews