Everybody Digs Bill Evans 2026

...the movie’s artful direction, nimble structure, visual richness and impeccable performances make for something full-bodied, compelling and deeply affecting, its melancholy beauty lingering long after the end credits roll.

What could feel contrived emerges as elegant and honestly felt, a study not just of the tumult that often produces great art, but the silence too.

This is a bold film about a protagonist who barely speaks while everyone talks around him. Lie’s nuanced, mumbling reserve is astonishing; Laurie Metcalf and a bullishly affable Bill Pullman are terrific as his folks.

This elusive, ruminative and very absorbing movie presents its successive scenes like a sequence of unresolved chords carrying the listener on a journey without a destination...