Nathan Silver's film is a quiet and affecting micro-budgeted drama, its condensed frame evoking the claustrophobic feeling of the household it examines.
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Silver locates the ordinary madness bubbling just beneath the surface of his own life, and flickers of lunacy abound.
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The Playlist by Christopher Bell
A layered and hilarious look at the dynamics of family, relationships, and need.
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The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis
Using mostly amateur performers and improvised dialogue, Mr. Silver has created a profoundly awkward riff on dysfunction that’s uneventful but not unrewarding.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Neil Young
[A] claustrophobically discomfiting but quizzically comic study of social unease and embarrassment.