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By Sean L (983) on 09 Jan 2009

Beautifully photographed simple film. There is no music to manipulate you. It all feels real…

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By Keith S (371) on 07 Jan 2009

Directionless emotionless plotless pretentious crap…

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By Chris K (1,194) on 29 Dec 2008

Pretty grim stuff and not always gripping. I suppose, it's main strength would have to be its realism…

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By J M (910) on 24 Dec 2008

Hammer delivers a southern-fried slammer. Unassuming, stark and real. The director's patience and sense of mystery is remarkable…

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By David R (1,449) on 08 Dec 2008

The ambient sound flows with the cinematography…

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By Tõnis K (18) on 05 Dec 2008

Incredibly restrained, minimalistic filmmaking…

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By Desmond T (13) on 29 Nov 2008

An extraordinarily dramatic, expressionist film that is every cineaste's dream…

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By Ioannis S (71) on 27 Nov 2008

A nice film about the importance of a male presence in the life of a boy and old mistakes redeemed…

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By Reginald V (32) on 24 Nov 2008

I saw this movie a few weeks ago, and I'm still waiting for something to happen in it. I want my money back (and I saw it for free)…

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By Peter Howell (1,731) for Toronto Star (3,601) on 21 Nov 2008

Debut writer/director Lance Hammer has rendered [Ballast] with something that can only be called radiant austerity…

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By Colin G (275) on 19 Nov 2008

Ballast has to be the exact opposite of the film you'd expect from someone named Lance Hammer…

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By Brandon F (349) on 16 Nov 2008

Definitely one of the best movies of the year…

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By Dan W (491) on 13 Nov 2008

[color=black][font=Tahoma]After his twin brother Darius commits suicide by overdosing on pills, Lawrence is so torn up about it that he shoots…

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By Jennifer S (930) on 13 Nov 2008

Beautiful film, and cinematography! this is what every independent film should be like…

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By Neville K (66) on 12 Nov 2008

A beautiful, lyrical meditation on couples, community and loneliness…

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By Emily P (277) on 10 Nov 2008

There's a lot of hype about this one that is hard to live up to, but I thought it was good, and worth seeing, though not the most amazing film…

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By Chris W (2,796) on 09 Nov 2008

A quiet and beautiful masterpiece. Director Lance Hammer's debut is reminiscence of the empathy and poetry shown in George Washington…

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By Bob Strauss (787) for Los Angeles Daily News (1,272) on 07 Nov 2008

The direct, shimmering minimalism with which Hammer tells his story also gets to some fairly real, universal stuff…

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By Paolo R (90) on 05 Nov 2008

Interesting story, but told in a very weak and slow way, which disturbs the first hour or so. But the festival win is okay…

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By Jason R (1,823) on 01 Nov 2008

An incredibly promising debut, from both the director and the director of photography, but ultimately a little thin narratively…

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