Rails & Ties

A Collision Course and Its Outcome

The actress Alison Eastwood’s first feature as a director, “Rails & Ties,” has a functional visual style and an abundance of drama that would go unnoticed in the close-up, actor-oriented world of television. The film is so self-consciously unadorned, so humble and plain, that it feels as if its director didn’t want us to think that she was trying to make some kind of cinematic statement. She hasn’t. Though she serves her actors well enough and sometimes even better than that, her grasp of the medium and its expressivity is less sure. [...]

di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (3665 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 26 ottobre 2007