Critic Reviews

• Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

  A tactile, emotion-laden world of beauty, loss, recovery.

• Kyle Smith, New York Post

  In "Hide Away," Josh Lucas plays an alcoholic widower who undergoes a spiritual rebirth by fixing up a sailboat, and I really wish he hadn't.

• Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times

  [It] feels padded even in its brief running time; it's a slight mood piece posing as a character study.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  Elliot Davis's pretty greeting-card cinematography, which lingers on birds, clouds and branches as it follows the seasonal changes, is better at evoking the passage of time and the rhythms of nature than all the sodden, pretentious dialogue.

• Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News

  It's basically just Lucas going through a short story-like period of reflection and redemption almost entirely without dialogue. It's not enough, but it is what this underappreciated actor does best.

• Eric Hynes, Village Voice

  The film stays afloat, if barely, thanks to Elliot Davis's uncluttered camerawork, a surprisingly unsentimental denouement, and performers who deftly undersell the script's corniest pretensions.

• Roger Moore, Movie Nation

  Beautifully shot, elegantly acted melodrama of the sailboating cure for what ails you.

• Christian Toto, Big Hollywood

  Josh Lucas drinks, bats his watery eyes and stares into space for nearly 90 minutes in Hide Away. And yet somehow the actor overshadows the obvious life lessons that threaten to sink the project at every turn.

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

  Beautifully-shot, but undercooked and too heavy on metaphors. Josh Lucas elevates the film with a strong, well-nuanced performance.

• Alison Willmore, Movieline

  Hide Away has more clunky moments than it does elegantly minimalist ones, the worst of which is the glimpse of what actually happened to the man's family.

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