Reviews

• It's hard to recall the last movie that has left such an emotionally searing question dangling in the mind: "What if ... ?"

  Mike Clark - USA Today
  
  12 May 2013

• It's no accident that this movie is named after both the filmmaker and his subject. It stands with the most thoughtful releases of recent months, and will linger in memory.

  David Sterritt - Christian Science Monitor
  
  12 May 2013

• Stevie seems destined to end the way it does, and is the more courageous and powerful for it. A satisfying ending would have been a lie.

  Roger Ebert - The Chicago Sun-Times
  
  12 May 2013

• So troubling and unflinchingly honest that watching it becomes a test of empathy and compassion.

  Michael Wilmington - The Chicago Tribune
  
  12 May 2013

• Gripping in its intimacy.

  Owen Gleiberman - Entertainment Weekly
  
  12 May 2013