The irrepressible Hal Holbrook masterfully essays an old man consumed in That Evening Sun, but is just one of many reasons for the film's profound success. Like the directors of the last decade's other great character dramas (Todd Louiso of Love Liza, Clint Eastwood of Gran Torino), Scott Teems understands the value of narrative clear-headedness and moral complexity, infusing the turf war its protagonist is engaged in with a sense of reality, history and purpose. Hail Michael Penn's score, too.

"That Evening Sun gets at something essential about man's sense of his own dignity and the importance to the American notion of self that comes with the possession of a property of one's own." - Andrew Schenker

Hal Holbrook is a god.

The film loses energy in the last ten minutes or so, but it features a superb Holbrook performance, is well directed, smells like real Tennessee farm country and refuses the temptation of simplifying a complicated emotional narrative into easily identifiable heroes and villains. Corbin and Wasikowska are very good too.