60
Schizo manages to keep it fresh.
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80
Schizo is in its way a taut and exciting thriller.
70
The New York Times by Dana Stevens
Ms. Omarova has a painter's eye for composition and a novelist's sense of character.
75
New York Daily News by Jami Bernard
With a cast of mostly non-actors, the film seems rough-hewn, like something you'd find rusted along a road. But it's actually a sophisticated blend of crime thriller, coming-of-age story and social realism.
60
Chicago Reader by Jonathan Rosenbaum
If one discounts the facile and unconvincing ending, this first feature by Guka Omarova, offers a convincingly bleak view of how a 15-year-old boy could get ahead in rural Kazakhstan in the early 90s.
70
It's a gripping, understated thriller with a solid emotional undercurrent that builds to an unexpectedly moving denouement.
50
Village Voice by Michael Atkinson
A modest, formulaic day trip from Kazakhstan.
50
Though it's equally concerned with sensitive young criminals in squalid communities, Schizo is no "City Of God," for better and worse.
40
A compelling screenplay, to be certain. But sadly, Omarova's direction is too leisurely to wring any emotional power.
100
A stunning drama from that remote former Soviet republic.