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New York Magazine (Vulture) by
The fullness of Duck Season is in direct proportion to its smallness; its modesty makes it bloom.
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What are critics saying?
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This slight but appealing film's funky eccentricity feels a little contrived at times.
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Duck Season is not (yet) the work of a great filmmaker, but it's the kind of movie in which a fledgling director traps his talent in a bottle and saves it for next time.
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Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum
Duck Season unfolds with a slaphappy logic that only looks casual. In fact, every unfinished conversation and banal picture on the wall (one's of ducks) matters as four little people share one memorable little day.
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The New York Times by Manohla Dargis
Inside this small canvas - almost the entire film unfolds in the one apartment - Mr. Eimbcke turns each character into an epic.
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Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
Shot in silvery black-and-white, Duck Season is not charmless, just insubstantial.
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Christian Science Monitor by Peter Rainer
The Mexican writer-director Fernando Eimbcke attempts to give this story a melancholy overlay, but its main interest is in its confirmation that teenagers are pretty much the same everywhere.
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Sometimes Duck Season is amusing. More often, though, it is boring and icky.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden
The lovely, unpredictable comedy Duck Season marks the arrival of a fresh talent in writer-director Fernando Eimbcke. His script is vibrant with unforced humanist observations, the performances are natural and endearing.