Critic Reviews

• Stephen Garrett, Time Out New York

  The movie has its flaws, but they are few and forgivable.

• Jan Stuart, Newsday

  Southern whimsy, when handled delicately, can produce a precious jewel a la Junebug. In less skillful hands, it can be merely precious.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  Knoxville tries hard and exudes a certain likability, but can't really handle big dramatic moments at this point in his career.

• Jami Bernard, New York Daily News

  A weird, unpleasant little movie.

• Laura Kern, New York Times

  Although the film starts off somewhat amusingly, the first-time feature director Katrina Holden Bronson seems to have spent more energy assembling the overbearing soundtrack than expanding on her characters' fractured relationships.

• Benjamin Strong, Village Voice

  Anyone looking for a paean to the unnatural allure of a sprinklered lawn can see that the grass is greener in Blue Velvet.

• Kevin Carr, 7M Pictures

  It'd be nice if Tarantino would go back to making his own films (which are usually pretty doggoned good) rather than helping out young filmmakers to produce garbage.

• John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

  Knoxville's character in Daltry Calhoun is in no way vulgar or crude (the movie carries a PG-13 rating for some mild profanity). He, like the movie, is simply bland.

• John J. Puccio, Movie Metropolis

  For all its good intentions, Daltry Calhoun is a predictable, derivative film.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  Contains a couple of lovely scenes that are all but smothered by a shambling mess of self-conscious eccentricity.

• Jonathan W. Hickman, Entertainment Insiders

  Unusual and in places refreshing, Daltry Calhoun is a good natured independent comedy drama independent film fans will endorse.

• Kevin Allison, Film Journal International

  It seems everyone involved meant well, but this one moves like an empty boat in a pond.

• Eric Lurio, Greenwich Village Gazette

  There's no reason to see this film, not even on cable. None!

• Marc Savlov, Austin Chronicle

  Boasts Quentin Tarantino as co-executive producer but falls about as far from that particular tree as one can imagine.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  The old 'Bachelor Father' formula is resurrected with a killer dose of whimsy in this pointedly quirky, almost unbearably dilatory feature.

• John Beifuss, Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

  Newcomer Sophie Traub is a natural charmer who hovers above the confusion like an angel even as her co-stars are sucked into the muck.

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