74
Metascore
26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensThrillingly smart, but not, like so many other pictures in this vein, merely an elaborate excuse for its own cleverness. As you puzzle over the intricacies of its shape, which reveal themselves only in retrospect, you may also find yourself surprised by the depth of its insights.
- 90Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasDemands the utmost concentration, for to look away from the screen for even a brief moment is to risk losing a plot line or a crucial bit of information, but its cumulative, transporting impact makes it worth the effort. Above all, it has an overwhelming sense of reality atypical of the American cinema.
- 88Boston GlobeLoren KingBoston GlobeLoren KingResonates with intelligence and a poignancy made more sorrowful by what happened to all of us, but especially to New Yorkers, on that terrible day.
- 75Miami HeraldRene RodriguezMiami HeraldRene RodriguezNothing fantastic or supernatural ever happens, but you can still feel cosmic forces at work behind the scenes, conspiring to repeatedly test the movie's characters, doling out reward and punishment in equal doses.
- 75The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceyThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Liam LaceySmart, serious and deftly composed, New York director Jill Sprecher's jigsaw anthology film, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing, is the kind of work you want to applaud just for its ambitions.
- 75Baltimore SunChris KaltenbachBaltimore SunChris KaltenbachAvoids pretension by never trying to be more than it is -- an acknowledgment that things frequently are not as bad as they seem. That's a concept that deserves a little spreading.
- 75New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThe segments are introduced with little clichés or homilies, like "Ignorance Is Bliss," but the fierce intelligence of the script reminds us that sometimes a cliché is the only way to express the ineffable.
- 70TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghIt starts slowly, but this contemplative drama's cumulative effect is genuinely haunting.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerArkin has a great and gentle feeling for small-time malcontents, and he knows how to make their woes our own. He does justice to the human comedy -- and redeems the movie.
- 50Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterAspiring to evoke an unreal city stranded in the autumn of the soul, the film succeeds only when it peers up from the intro-philosophy book for the occasional glimpse of everyday beauty.