Sundowners

The New York Times by Andy Webster

Closure may be missing, but at least glimpses of promising Canadian performers are in abundant supply.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Barry Hertz

It is at times extremely uncomfortable, but captivating and engaging all the same.

The Hollywood Reporter by Frank Scheck

This Canadian indie mostly avoids the sort of vulgarisms attendant to films of that ilk, displaying a slyly droll humor that proves consistently engaging.

RogerEbert.com by Godfrey Cheshire

“A good movie is never too long, and a bad movie can never be too short.” That famous quote from Roger Ebert helps me explain why the Canadian indie comedy Sundowners, though it runs only 97 minutes, felt to me like it lasted 14 hours. Longer than “Lawrence of Arabia.” Longer than “Shoah.”

Variety by Nick Schager

Pleasant in the blandest sense of the term, writer-director Pavan Moondi’s film likely won’t entice anyone outside die-hard fans of cult-comic co-star Tim Heidecker.

Movie Nation by Roger Moore

It’s a smart, poignant skewering of lives of diminishing returns, two grown men flailing at life and failing at life at 33.