I saw over 20 films at Sundance this year and The Greatest was by far my favorite. The performances were truly special.

http://seattletimes.com/html/movies/2011558561_mr09greatest.html
“What makes “The Greatest” work so well is that Feste clearly remembers what it’s like to be 18 and to believe your one chance at joy has passed you by. And British actress Mulligan, who’s already shown in “An Education” that she can break our hearts with a sad-eyed glance, here does it with a perfect American accent and a wistful sweetness… The real drama is in the faces of the actors: Brosnan’s, in an early close-up as Allen desperately tries to erase all emotion and soldier on; Sarandon’s, as Grace stares fiercely at the man who drove the car that killed Bennett, willing him to say her boy didn’t suffer; Mulligan’s, intently listening to any detail about Bennett, trying to fill in a biography of a young man she loved but barely knew. “