From the Edge of the City(Από Την Άκρη Της Πόλης)

L.A. Weekly by

An impressive work that's ultimately undone by its excessive style.

Village Voice by Dennis Lim

The viewer, though unavoidably alert, is before long too numb to care.

San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

Gratuitous, yes, but Giannaris has the visual finesse to make it work.

New York Post by Hannah Brown

Feels like a Greek version of "My Own Private Idaho."

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

Underdeveloped and badly diluted by overlong -- and overly stylized -- forays into the drug use, street hustling and cultural alienation that mostly affects the boys' friends.

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

If it's not an entirely wholesome portrait of the immigrant experience, it's certainly an entertaining one.

Los Angeles Times by Kevin Thomas

Brutal yet lyrical film.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer by Sean Axmaker

All the jazzy effects and jumpy editing merely move us quicker to an otherwise predetermined tragedy.

The New York Times by Stephen Holden

It captures a gritty urban reality without moralizing or sentimentalizing its hapless young protagonist.