Old Joy

...Old Joy perks up with several lyrical sequences in the natural world, highlighted by a visit to hot springs that serves as the film's moving centerpiece.

Rarely has so little been said in a road movie to such poignant effect as in this meditation on the passage of time in both human affiliations and the vast American wilderness.

The glass isn't half-full or half -empty, dude, it just is.

Like a great jazz musician, Reichart understands that striking a single, well-placed note can resonate more profoundly than playing a splashy cascade of noise just because you can.

Reichardt fashions an intricate rapport between her protagonists and setting, the silence of the Oregon woodlands counterbalancing the noxious noise of the modern world...