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An ex-con struggling to readjust to life in his small town forms an intense bond with his former high school teacher.
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| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Tara ThorneFalco is aces at this kind of performance-though it's quieter than we've seen her in a long time-and Duplass, who co-wrote the movie, nearly sags with sadness. |
| The Seattle TimesMoira MacdonaldOutside In is about connection, and about two remarkable actors telling us a story. |
| Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangDuplass' puppy-dog affect may seem softer than you'd expect for a character who spent 20 years behind bars, but the actor's quietly wrenching performance gives the lie to any easy assumptions about the experience of the incarcerated. And Falco...gives a performance of aching depth and subtlety. |
| IndiewireEric KohnShelton’s work is understated, but elevates seemingly forgettable scenarios with a wise, humane approach that makes even a lesser work like Outside In a cut above the market standard. |
| The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisIn a movie whose greatest tension comes from wondering whether Chris will violate his parole by drinking a beer, the actors need to be compelling. Easily clearing that bar, Ms. Falco gives Carol a gentle kindness and the emotional intelligence to transform Chris’s ardor into a catalyst. |
| The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeA love story whose resolution remains tough to predict, Outside In respects all its characters by not pretending their choices are easily made. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyOutside In feels eventful, even somewhat suspenseful, as we worry that being around so many screwups of one sort or another might endanger Chris’ still-fragile freedom. |
| RogerEbert.comAllison ShoemakerShelton and Duplass may not stray very far from the path which, at the film’s outset, they seem likeliest to take, and not every moment along that path lands quite as well as it could. But like Bird’s score, Outside In knows how to take us from the outside and bring us, well, in. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThoughtful performances render this intimate drama a rewarding and engrossing look into life after prison, and a mystery well worth waiting for its unraveling. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloWhile this is probably Shelton’s best fully scripted dramatic feature — a big improvement on the incoherent "Touchy Feely" (2013) — it’s the sort of earnest, conventional movie that many indie directors could make (and many do). |