This is the most difficult movie I've ever had to form an opinion on. If I had to sum up my thoughts, it would be to say that it is easily The Movie of the Year, but just not The Best Movie of the Year.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, between this and the strangeness that was Brick, is proving himself to be one of the best young actors working today. Him and Ryan Gosling are really just turning out one great performance after another in these tiny little indie movies. Jeff Daniels is rippingly entertaining as the wise-cracking blind man. He sells it all the way through Great movie.