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As I Lay Dying looks and sounds great, and offers many individual moments of heightened intensity.

A film of extraordinary complexity and fascination.

The film's only real crime is perhaps that it celebrates the life of Edie rather than Andy, and does that not particularly well.

Uninspiring soap melodrama.

This is a film full of cultivated emptiness.

Writer Michael Arndt has cleverly captured the bribery and corruption which lie at the heart of most families.

Deadpan absurdity, everyday madness and enlightenment through routine merge in an attempt to answer the big questions of life.

Against the whisper of wind and buzz of flies, the Coens manage to find tension in the subtlest of movements and cut the dialogue through with humour as arid as the landscape.

It's so oozy with reverence for the national game, you feel like taking up topless darts to get away from it.

Spork may pluck the heartstrings but its does so with an askew sense of humour free of Hollywood schmaltz.