This is basically brooding people doing awkward things in a humid environment. full review

The Yellow Handkerchief is a love story. Two, really. At its center is the sweetly fractured ticking of a broken heart on the mend. full review

This modest but moving indie ensemble piece puts three estimable actors in a convertible, sets them on a long drive to post-Katrina Louisiana and lets the character dynamics do the rest. full review

The Yellow Handkerchief is a surprisingly moving drama -- a throwback to the small, character-driven indies of yesteryear. full review

Even Stewart, an untutored colt of an actress who can toggle between natural grace and utter haplessness, finds her groove here. full review

You don't need an original story for a movie. You need original characters and living dialogue. full review

Sluggish. Torpid. Boring. full review

The sleepy scenery and charming performances -- Stewart escapes her vampires and reminds everyone what the fuss used to be about -- keep The Yellow Handkerchief from blowing it. full review

Here the fascination is Hurt, so deft at steering his character away from booby-trap cliches that he guides his young costars safely out of sap's way and brightens an otherwise very yellowed tale. full review

With tired eyes, a hesitant stoop and thinning hair, William Hurt makes only occasional appearances in films these days, but he's forgotten nothing about the kind of niche acting that informed his early work and won him a coveted Best Actor Oscar. full review

The first half of The Yellow Handkerchief is the half-movie of the year, and the rest isna(TM)t bad -- just more sentimental, more ordinary. full review

Director Udayan Prasad knows how to maximize tight spaces and closed-up characters, but Stewart underwhelms with her churlish pout and Southern twang, while Redmayne is simply annoying. full review

Erin Dignam's episodic script, brimming with humor and honest emotion -- and the pitch-perfect direction of Udayan Prasad -- thankfully avoids manipulating the audience at every turn. full review

William Hurt, who specializes in playing high-strung, upscale neurotics, brings his formidable skills to The Yellow Handkerchief. full review

All three leads are solidly convincing in their candor. And Oscar-winning cinematographer Chris Menges (The Mission) shoots the hell out of the swampy South to make for a nontoxic diversion. full review

[Arthur] Cohn has assembled a quartet of gifted actors who are captivating under Prasad's perceptive direction. full review

Better pack your hankies. full review

A sometimes insightful and other times sentimental slice of Americana.