When you see Shoot the Moon, you recognize yourself in it.

Keaton continues to astound with the depth of her characterizations, and Finney's undercurrent of rage maintains tenseness throughout.

Divorce and separation are subjects too important to be treated in the bizarre way Alan Parker treats them in Shoot the Moon which is a film with lots of emotion but no heart.

A movie that continues to feel alive because it was drawn from the creators' own divorce experiences, more than from movie conventions.