Tom Carver is a man stumbling blindly towards a crossroad in his life, thrown out of focus by the death of his teenage son a year earlier. He becomes involved in a feud with a teenage gang after a seemingly harmless collision with a young kid. As the feud becomes more horrifying, Carver's world starts to unravel forcing him to make decisions that will change his life forever.
While it's no surprise that Moore is so good, "Still Alice" has an unexpected trick up its sleeve: the sweetly gentle performance of Kristen Stewart, as Alice's actress daughter Lydia.
– Moira MacDonald,
Seattle Times,
29 Jan 2015
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A modest drama, but Moore's heart-wrenching and Oscar-nominated performance makes this a must-see.
– Rafer Guzman,
Newsday,
29 Jan 2015
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The movie is harrowing, as any story about Alzheimer's should be, but Moore gives it an extra layer of gravity and heartbreaking inevitability.
– Rene Rodriguez,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan 2015
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Sorrow-laden and moving, Still Alice isn't gratuitously grim nor is it easily sentimental. There's humor here -- vaguely gallows-like, perhaps but also earned.
– Lisa Kennedy,
Denver Post,
23 Jan 2015
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The great strength of the film is that it never resorts to cheap sentimentality. The facts themselves are hard enough, crushing enough.