Metacritic Film

States of Control

Starring Jennifer Van Dyck, John Cunningham, Ellen Greene, Stephen Bogardus, Jennie Moreau, Stephen Gevedon, Nancy Giles, and Jason Culp

MPAA RATING: Not rated

Phaedra Cinema
Drama
84 minutes | Color
USA
Released In Theaters April 13, 2001

AA provocative journey deep into the world of a woman determined to break through the sterility of modern life. (Phaedra Cinema)

WRITTEN BY
Zachary Winestine

DIRECTED BY
Zachary Winestine

Overall Metascore

This is a weighted, normalized average of all individual scores given by critics, on a scale of 0 (worst) to 100 (best).

32 / 100

Critic Reviews

50	Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt Conjures up enough involving moments to create some drama.
40	The New York Times Dave Kehr In the end, Lisa's revolt seems as predictably programmatic, and as widely abstracted from observable human behavior, as the movie that contains her.
40	TV Guide Maitland McDonagh While handsomely mounted and generally well acted, the film is undermined by long stretches of awkward, obvious dialogue and by the vagueness of Lisa's revolt against the status quo.
38	New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman The characters speak in Dialogue rather than English, the actors are so busy emoting they forget to act and the story feels like a first-draft college project.
38	New York Post Lou Lumenick A sluggish and prototypically earnest little indie on the not exactly fresh theme of a woman undergoing a midlife crisis.
30	Variety Leonard Klady Oblique and impenetrable under its glossy surface.
20	Village Voice Edward Crouse Takes its heroine, Lisa (Van Dyck), to the neurotic brink.

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