The New York Times by Stephen Holden

Above all How I Ended This Summer is a merciless contemplation of the fragile human psyche under siege.

Salon by Andrew O'Hehir

Combines memorable images of the gorgeous, rugged wilderness, meticulous sound design that emphasizes the characters' isolation, a dash of dark wit and a dose of madness.

San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego

What stays with the viewer is a sense of a man unraveling from his own mistakes and weaknesses.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Sergei Puskepalis (Sergei) and Grigory Dobrygin (Pavel) give powerful performances, but the real star is Mother Nature.

Village Voice by Nick Pinkerton

Playing an ignoble protagonist, Dobrygin keeps his motives always quietly evident; later, lost in a fog painted red by an emergency flare, he's an abject vision of man in a hell of his own making.

Time Out by Joshua Rothkopf

The movie's first hour happens to be its most absorbing. Director Alexei Popogrebsky sets up the quiet tensions between his two generationally divided characters like a chess match pocked with occasional power grabs.