Distant

"Distant," that's more like a warning than a title . . . . The two leads will eventually clash, but not enough to make this offering worthy of sitting through.

There is plenty to admire here, but the movie is a gaunt affair, with something ruinously washed-out about it.

Deeply compassionate and frequently amusing, qualifying as a minor miracle of humanely observant filmmaking.

It is very sad but also very beautiful. (Particularly after snow flocks the gray-on-gray city.) There is one breathtaking moment, a scene involving a beached tanker in snow, that is merely the best of dozens of indelible fragments.