| 100 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Rarely does a movie come along that captures an aspect of everyday consciousness that has not yet made it onto film.
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| 90 |
Dallas Observer
David Ehrenstein
Because of the supremely artful way Shear and Reitz have pitched the story, it reaches into places few films, gay or straight, have gone.
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| 88 |
Chicago Tribune
One of those small films that will, one hopes, find a larger audience through word of mouth.
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| 80 |
The New York Times
As technically innovative as it is emotionally unsettling.
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| 80 |
Film.com
David D'Arcy
It gives the audience something serious to ponder. That's rare these days.
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| 80 |
Variety
A darkly intriguing drama that probes the very nature of love and the lasting effects of loss.
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| 80 |
Los Angeles Times
Such a powerful experience that it is equally effective whether you have figured out from the start where it is headed or whether its denouement comes as a complete surprise.
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| 80 |
TNT RoughCut
The journey -- long, dark, pungent, and twisted as it is -- is well worth the taking.
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| 80 |
Washington Post
There's no denying its surreal, hypnotic effect.
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| 80 |
LA Weekly
The story of what happens when everything dies but love. It's a simple story, artfully told.
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| 78 |
Austin Chronicle
Leaves you scratching your head a bit, wondering what just happened, and worrying if maybe it could happen to you too.
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| 75 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
An edgy, disturbing drama.
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| 75 |
Boston Globe
It plays like Scorsese's ``After Hours,'' but for higher stakes.
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| 75 |
New York Daily News
Smart, psychologically complex film is an offbeat and effective tale.
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| 75 |
New York Post
Dark, morbidly funny and quite violent movie, which plays with audience members' heads in ways many people will find quite disturbing.
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| 75 |
Portland Oregonian
A film in which barbs of wit, anger and grief continually prick at you.
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| 74 |
Mr. Showbiz
An ambitious film, nearly an exploitative one, but its lingering effects are positive.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Much of this fractured drama and dark fantasy takes place inside the mind of Charlie (Futterman),
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| 70 |
Village Voice
Derails toward the end, becoming platitudinous, not to mention kitschy, but, given the Cheerios wholesomeness of most gay indies, its grief-stricken delirium is a welcome relief.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
Athima Chansanchai
Designed to shock and rock the viewer with disturbing imagery, the film misses the point once too often.
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| 50 |
Christian Science Monitor
The story evokes a lot of varied emotions, but none runs more than an inch below skin deep.
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| 50 |
TV Guide
If this were a more mainstream film with a shot at a wider audience, we'd probably be talking Oscar nominations for Futterman and Ball.
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| 42 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
At its best when exploring grieving and loss and anger, but Shear turns it into spiritual shock treatment.
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| 25 |
San Francisco Examiner
Quickly degenerates into a grueling piece of unpleasantness.
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