'Look Both Ways'

"Look Both Ways" is a fearless movie about a fearful subject, an unusually empathetic and quite funny film that deals with death and dying in the most offbeat and casually life-affirming way. Exceptionally smart, playful and perceptive, "Look Both Ways" confronts things that people would rather avoid. Able to grapple with big issues in a style that is both heartfelt and idiosyncratic, it enhances confidence in cinema as a medium that can deal with the reality of existence in all its painful and wonderful randomness, that completely embraces the inevitably messy business of being alive.

By Kenneth Turan

April 28, 2006