5.0
Dave White Profile <h3>Dave White</h3> <p><strong>Your Movies.com Man at the Multiplex</strong></p> <br /> <p>Dave White's first movie review was of the animated feature Snoopy Come Home. He was seven years old...<a href="http://www.movies.com/movie-reviews/dave-white">Read full profile</a></p>
...beautiful looking Read full review
Critics scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
out of 100
Metascore®Universal acclaimbased on a weighted average of allcritic review scores.
Ballast inexorably grows and deepens and gathers power and absorbs us. I always say I hardly ever cry at sad films, but I sometimes do, just a little, at films about good people.
Read Full Review
Ballast strikes me as one of the few American pictures of 2008 to say what it wants to say, visually and narratively, about a specific situation and part of the country, in a way that transcends regional specifics.
This ostensibly simple film evokes whole lives in 96 minutes, and does so with sparse dialogue.
Working with non-pro actors, Hammer pulls authentic performances from the trio that are at times almost too painful to witness.
The final shot, of the three characters now united, may be the quietest affirmation of life I've ever seen in a movie, and one of the truest.
See all Ballast reviews at Metacritic.com