Sister Aimee

It's about the story Aimee creates of her life, the stories the people in her life tell about her, and the way we choose to tell stories of the past.

It broke my heart that this movie is kind of a letdown.

The filmmakers sometimes fail to follow through on the more interesting parts of their story, but a novel approach to the material mostly compensates for the drier stretches.

Buck and Schlingmann have ideas, but they just don't add up to something impactful here.

"Sister Aimee" is a true original - apparently, just like its namesake.

The gendered themes at play here do little to boost the quality of Buck and Schlingmann's storytelling, which is too tangled to follow at times.

An interesting take on self-invention with an impressive cast that carries it through, Sister Aimee is a period piece that packs a real punch.

As a fascinating curio attempt at borrowing the stylings of turn of the century radio plays, Sister Aimee is an admirable miss.

Samantha Buck and Marie Schlingmann's new film "Sister Aimee" is, by their own admission, 94.5% imagination. What "Sister Aimee" does have in spades is a truly marvelous cast.

A picaresque Western with some "Chicago"-style razzle-dazzle (including a song!) about a confident, successful woman finding out what her limits are.