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That Evening Sun (2009) Movie Reviews

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Movie critics combined give That Evening Sun (2009) a score of 2.7591 out of 4

based on (11) reviews

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Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)

It is not the sort of movie to which crowds will flock. Maybe it could have been, with just a few adjustments 2014 had it been sexed up or had its violence come in hard spasms. But that is not the kind of story Gay wrote or that Teems wanted to film....read the complete That Evening Sun (2009) review at Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Philip Martin)

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The New York Times

Some of the film's deepest moments are the quiet conversations between Abner and Thurl Chessor (Barry Corbin), his sedentary, ailing next-door neighbor who is simply biding his time....read the complete That Evening Sun (2009) review at The New York Times

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Time Out New York

Adapting Southern author William Gay's short story, writer-director Scott Teems suffuses That Evening Sun with a palpable regional languor that gives his fairly simple script more elegiac weight than it earns....read the complete That Evening Sun (2009) review at Time Out New York