Animenter There are women in the film, but none has anything you could call a personality.

Taraparain Tells a fascinating and unsettling true story, and does so well, without pretending to have all the answers.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

CaligulaAzrael This is first mumblecore I've seen and I must say that I don't know why some people are so excited about it. Swanberg's movie is just a compilation of less or more boring scenes in which director and his star, Great Gerwig are talking, laying in bed, trying to make love and so on, so on. It's not that the whole thing is bad - it just leads to nowhere. There is no plot, there is no hidden message. The acting is quite good, especially Gerwig is doing nice job in here - she's very natural and has her own charm. Also photography and editing are better than I expected, being aware of that the film is practically non-budget. So - technically work is made unobjectionable, but the rest - the plot, tension, action - it just doesn't exist in this one. Maybe for few viewers it's kind of art. Not for me.

evening1 The founding fathers divided government into three branches with checks and balances. This is where Greta Gerwig and Joe Swanberg made their big mistake. They thought they could do it all on their own -- writing, directing, and acting -- with no significant input from others. Maybe that works for a home movie, but this is something they expected people to pay for! With no outsider in a position to say, "Wait, hold on, do you think we could try this another way?" this megalomaniacal couple have produced an embarrassingly vapid flight into unrestrained narcissism. Ellen DeGeneris-lookalike Mattie is depressed. Her giggling boyfriend James is shallow. One tolerates this slice-of-life film out of morbid curiosity: Just how is this insipid couple going to fill a whole hour and a half of screen time? We see them doing nothing of any significance together, except perhaps visiting James's brother and his young family. Otherwise James and Mattie have sex on a clothes-strewn floor, then eat on a floor, and go not once but twice to get their pictures taken. (Who the hell cares?) For a change of pace, we get to join Mattie as she sits on the john and gives her butt a swipe. So much for imaginative plotting. Nor is the characterization any good. Mattie seems severely depressed, with no mature outlet for expressing her rage. James ignores this elephant in the room and often seems to force his laughter, as if perhaps to convince himself he's having fun in this relationship. And forget the script quality -- there is no memorable dialogue here.This supremely bored couple actually talks of having a child together. God help us if they think an innocent baby will inject some meaning into their drivel-filled universe. This couple weeps when it is time to part, but the audience may experience tears of joy.

rddj05 Though Swanberg's previous film "LOL", was not the most visually stunning, it was creative, and I found it quite interesting simply because it had something to say about how we relate to one another in this day and age. This film seems to want to say something as well, but the immature, whiny, uninteresting way the characters say it, has started to become a staple of the Mumblecore movement (to see the most blatant example of this, see "The Puffy Chair"...actually, don't). The majority of these films been festival darlings and been fairly well-received by critics. This is mostly due to the fact that many of the films have been able to strip away the traditional Hollywood artifice from their characters and allow them to exhibit some honest behavior, no matter how awkward. However, you get the sense that these middle-class, white, 20-somethings need something to fill their time besides thoughts of their own neuroses and navel-gazing.The allure of these films for many viewers is that the people on screen are "just like me", and the situations are "just like what happened to me yesterday". This could be interesting if only there were actually something at stake. The NY Times review summed it up better than I can, when it stated, "The problem with the movie is that James and Mattie exhibit little but shallow, infantile neurosis, with next to no hint of a complex — or even legible — inner life."

bertseymour7 I will try not to be overly critical here because I have been somewhat harsh on the mumblecore movement and while this movie is not something I enjoyed I did not find it as sloppy as some of the previous mumblecore work.This film was showing at south by southwest in austin, after it showed some people were really into it while others hated it. I was impartial, having seen the previous mumblecore work I knew what to anticipate. Rambling scenes, mumbling, nudity for the sake of shock and attention, whiney pathetic lead characters.I hate to tell people what to think, and I can say a few people seemed to find it interesting. I can say what I thought though, their was basically no plot, the whole story revolves around two characters, and if you find whiney pathetic characters annoying then you are in trouble.I have a theory that after seeing so much garbage that looked the same at SXSW people were merely impressed because they saw a different looking piece of garbage, and they said, well is that still garbage, it looks different. The thing is, garbage comes in all shapes and sizes.