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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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

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

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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…

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

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

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