Dreamland

The performances are all fine, with Bruckner and Corbett the standouts as a parent and child with roles reversed after a death in the family.

The filmmakers were clearly not interested in the ending but in exploring the characters and the situation, and they do that with sophistication and genuine feeling, both for the people and the environment.

As swoony and verbose and serious as an adolescent's journal entry.

As the mother of a preteen daughter who has dragged me to a number of teen movies, I was captivated by this strange mutant of a movie. There is skill here, and some poignant scenes that stayed with me, including a first kiss scene that's one of the bette