“I had a vivid flashback to a flight with my stepfather and my mother when I was perhaps twelve years old.”

“It is never a good sign when a film is told in flashbacks and the same actors are playing the same roles, back and forth.”

“The story is intercut with flashbacks to earlier summers, when the sun shone and everything in the garden was lovely.”

“On the whole, though, the flashbacks are clumsily integrated into the main action, and can't be salvaged by the staging.”