| 100 |
Boston Globe
Bizarre, shadowy, enticingly eerie...more poetic, more tantalizingly original.
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| 100 |
Chicago Sun-Times
In its quiet, dark, claustrophobic way, this is one of the best films of the year.
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| 91 |
Entertainment Weekly
A quietly dazzling microcosm that's always just this side of eerie, just that side of tragic.
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| 90 |
Los Angeles Times
A graceful mood piece that is infinitely moving.
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| 90 |
Dallas Observer
A gentle, beautifully realized tale of love and intimacy...It moved me to tears.
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| 89 |
Austin Chronicle
At once emotionally charged and genuinely, disconcertingly surreal...a marvel of subdued, genuine filmmaking.
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| 88 |
San Francisco Examiner
Beautiful, wandering little love story that wants to break your heart and probably will.
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| 88 |
Miami Herald
Never shies from acknowledging the natural fascination with their abnormalities.
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| 88 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Although the pervading mood of Twin Falls Idaho - a beautifully shot, noirish thing - is one of sadness and loss, the Polishes' film is playful, too.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
Proves that it's possible for a movie to be reckless and adventurous merely by being sedate, unhurried and contemplative.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
Janet Maslin
An eerily effective film...Twin Falls Idaho has style, gravity and originality to spare.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Has the gentlest feel of any movie I can remember.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Pretentious but absorbing.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
With its persuasive special effects, gentle pace, and more expressionistic than surreal production design, this serious yet far from ponderous drama is something of a marvel.
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| 70 |
Film.com
Best of all is a Halloween party where the Falls are complimented on their "costume," then outed.
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| 70 |
TNT RoughCut
Morgan Fouch
Though Twin Falls Idaho fascinatingly uncovers the complexities of conjoined twins, it is more about any sibling relationship where one feels simultaneously burdened and uplifted by the other.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Entrancing, uncommonly compassionate film.
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| 67 |
Mr. Showbiz
It is only once the movie has exhausted its roster of "weird" notions and contrived images that it finds its emotional footing, leaving you with one half of a lovely, woebegone film.
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| 67 |
Portland Oregonian
Some truly memorable moments, but they come early and, as the film wears its way along, become increasingly hard to call to mind.
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| 67 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Often as stillborn in pace as it is conceptually compelling.
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| 63 |
New York Post
The whole film could use a jolt of caffeine, and a lugubrious woodwind score doesn't help.
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| 63 |
Chicago Tribune
If you're in the mood for something strange, this film may please you, twice over.
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| 60 |
Variety
Lacks narrative push...atmospheric drama that casts a minor but distinctive spell.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
A slow and pensive tone, but for all its lyrical pretensions it lacks real poetry.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Surprisingly formulaic. So many scenes seem lifted from a 1950s melodrama, from Blake and Francis' repentent mother (Leslie Ann Warren) to the film's tearjerker of a final scene.
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| 50 |
USA Today
This Lynch-ian knockoff is moodily monotonal, but the sameness is wearying.
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| 50 |
Village Voice
Neither as weighty nor as weird as it would like to think.
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| 50 |
Film.com
While the film's mood is dreamy, dark, and gentle, it's also very slow and seldom leads to much of a intellectual or emotional payoff.
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