Critic Reviews

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  A very engaging indie drama about graffiti artists in San Francisco.

• Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

  Although the filmmakers have succeeded in portraying a raw slice of street culture, they have also made something that seems unnecessarily stiff, foisting a structural conceit onto something that by its very nature is free-form and uncontainable.

• Eddie Cockrell, Variety

  Pic's cliched underlying story of restless youth plays as too naive for an older audience and too provocative for teens.

• Nathan Lee, New York Times

  A minor, modest indie about two young graffiti artists forced to choose between creative marginalization and the seductions of the marketplace.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  Morgan, who co-wrote with Burnam, elicits authentic performances from his two lead actors and from Mackenzie Firgens as Curtis' single-mom girlfriend.

• Joshua Land, Village Voice

  As deceptively modest and quietly ambitious as its urban working-class hero.

• Steve Schneider, Orlando Weekly

  It's up to the consistently fluid ensemble acting and colloquially sound dialogue to keep things on track, which they do admirably.

• Paul Malcolm, L.A. Weekly

  It's a setup as old as the hills, but the unvarnished simplicity with which first-time director Benjamin Morgan rolls it out makes the tale worth another go-round.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  While Burnam and Garrison imbue their characters with authentic-feeling frustration and anger, they never succeed in making them especially interesting; it's hard to care in any serious way what becomes of either.

• Phil Hall, Film Threat

  Dismal, connect-the-dots, no-budget indie.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  The film's aesthetic often suggests a Modern Living editor's take on a graffiti-ridden hood, but Morgan is almost chill for not trying to front ghetto idolatry.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  The best low-budget indie ever shot in San Francisco's Mission District...

• Les Wright, culturevulture.net

  Penetrates to the very heart of post-dot-com bohemian San Francisco

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