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Rails & Ties
2008
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6
Negative reviews
8
Average Rating
2.4
/5
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2.0
How do we know this is what hes doing His friends and co workers tell him its what hes doing.
Av Club
3.1
Sometimes theres a movie that has better things in it than the underlying material deserves.
Rogerebert
3.8
The film never deals with the issue of the two moms selfishness: the boys drugged out mother intends for him to die with her; and by consoling him in ..
Ny Daily News
1.3
Levy and Eastwood work the railroad metaphor for all its worth, beginning with the title, which manages to be simultaneously obscure and, after youve ..
Tv Guide
1.9
In presenting heavy material like cancer, suicide and orphaned children, one needs a light touch to counter balance it, but the younger Eastwood tells ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
1.9
Rails & Ties is ultimately too clunky with its plotting and insincere about its characters to affect on any level.
Mark Reviews Movies
2.2
In the right hands, this might be the stuff of compelling cinema.
Cs Monitor
1.0
No one needed to pull the emergency brake to derail this movie, but they should have anyway.
Film Journal
2.5
Its becoming a bit tiresome watching Kevin Bacon suffer, and he isnt done any favors by this thudding weeper.
Ew
1.3
But an uplifting ending feels tacked on rather than organic to the story.
Sf Gate
3.1
But the remarkably ambiguous conclusion all but assures that most viewers will leave the film questioning the fate of a key character, and one would i ..
Reel Film
3.1
Eastwood makes little attempt to challenge the audience, and sometimes seem disinterested even in engaging it.
The Star
1.3
The only conceivable reason for Warner Bros. to (barely) release this mush is as a favor to Clint Eastwood, whose daughter Alison directed.
New York Post
4.5
Like being ordered to have long hair and smile on stage, but wondering how to smile with a trombone in your mouth.Or repeatedly told youre not good en ..
News Blaze
2.5
Alison Eastwood makes a tentative directorial debut with a made for TV quality script by tin eared Mickey Levy.
Film Critic 1963 Typepad
3.0
Alison Eastwood has created a film of quiet delicacy, something fragile yet resolute, and shot through with a life affirming thread that is brave enou ..
Brandon Fibbs
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