Melissa Anderson Time Out Feb 10, 2007 2/6

The flashbacks are almost as smoothly subtle as the title of one of the paintings showcased by Billy Dee Williams's character: Portrait of a Journey.

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Kam Williams EURWeb Feb 8, 2007 1/4

This overplotted, emotional dump plods along as if the characters are stuck in the cinematic equivalent of quicksand, never generating any traction because no matter how much everybody vents, nothing of consequence ever transpires.

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Scott Brown Entertainment Weekly Feb 7, 2007 C

Neither the camera nor the script can focus.

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Frank Lovece Film Journal International Feb 6, 2007

I'm nodding off just thinking about the long, static close-ups and endless scenes of people walking and sitting and doing nothing.

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Andy Klein Los Angeles CityBeat Feb 5, 2007

... the biggest problem is that the insights ... are strictly Hallmark TV movie stuff, an association reinforced by the mawkish visual style and score.

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Maitland McDonagh TV Guide Feb 2, 2007 2/4

The stage is set for emotional pyrotechnics that never quite materialize, because for all their squabbles, grudges and grievances, they all basically love each other.

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Kyle Smith New York Post Feb 2, 2007 0/4

Scenes in which little or nothing happens pass by slowly, and the only point of suspense is whether the number of tearful hugs at the end will reach double digits.

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Bob Strauss Los Angeles Daily News Feb 2, 2007 2/4

A movie whose abundant smarts are fatally compromised by its writer-director Jordan Walker-Pearlman's rudimentary filmmaking skills.

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Tim Cogshell Boxoffice Magazine Feb 2, 2007 2/5

Loosely edited scenes juxtaposed in the most vexing ways and completely disparate motifs blurs Constellation into an image that the Hubble Space Telescope could not sharpen.

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Matt Zoller Seitz New York Times Feb 2, 2007 2/5

If earnestness equaled skill, Constellation would be a classic.

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Kevin Crust Los Angeles Times Feb 1, 2007 2.5/5

Featuring a stalwart cast (many of whom appeared in Walker-Pearlman's 2000 drama, The Visit) and some delicately wrought moments, the film is unable to overcome its soap opera scenario and clunky pacing.

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Desson Thomson Washington Post Feb 1, 2007

Although the performers -- including Lesley Ann Warren, David Clennon and Rae Dawn Chong -- are pleasing to watch with their semi-improvised encounters, their scenes don't add up to the accumulative glow the filmmaker had in mind.

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Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter Feb 1, 2007

An accomplished cast that includes Billy Dee Williams, Lesley Ann Warren and Rae Dawn Chong struggles to elevate material that rarely gets deeper than a daytime soap, though it tries mightily.

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Bill Muller Arizona Republic Feb 1, 2007 1/5

The narration, intrusive and often unneeded, is interrupted by long sequences without dialogue.

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John Anderson Newsday Feb 1, 2007 1/4

Moody pictures, swollen music and portentous dialogue are all great, but they need to have a narrative propping them up.

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Scott Foundas L.A. Weekly Feb 1, 2007

Constellation positions itself as a sweeping, multigenerational tearjerker in the style of The Notebook, complete with endless shots of two characters staring meaningfully at one another while gloppy music wells on the soundtrack.

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Harvey S. Karten Compuserve Jan 28, 2007 C+

Lacks focus with its plethora of family entanglements.

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Eric Lurio Greenwich Village Gazette Jan 27, 2007 2/5

There are no revelations here, no real reconciliations, as nobody really hates each other.

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Nick Schager Slant Magazine Jan 20, 2007 1/4

It's tempting to simply dismiss Constellation as a TV movie-quality feature, but such a description nonetheless probably sells TV movies short.

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