“As wild as its reputation…”

“…merges music, memory, dreams, and science fiction in elegantly inventive ways.”

“…has a refreshing, lo-fi superhero sensibility.”

“There’s something exciting about a filmmaker scribbling away at a movie comic in his own corner…”

“…an ecological, existential nightmare.”

“…all about Humphrey Bogart’s face.”

“You get a full performance from Gloria Grahame, then bonus ones from each of her eyebrows.”

“…registers most strongly as a piece of anti-isolationist propaganda.”

“A Heavenly Creatures riff, though with much less imagination and far thinner psychology…”

“…has an eerie familiarity that is at once banal and claustrophobic.”