Critic Reviews

• Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle

  A well-executed scene can be followed by another where Clark shows no sense of the tone of which he'd just been in such tight control.

• Rick Groen, Globe and Mail

  Ho-hum.

• Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune

  It's hard for Another Day in Paradise to bring anything new to the well-worn road traveled by thugs on the run. But director Larry Clark and an energetic cast keep things jumping in this morality tale about the down and dirty.

• Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times

  As contradictory as it is energetic, the film takes as many risks as its people do and as a result strikes a highly contemporary nerve.

• Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

  Another Day in Paradise is one big pleasurable wallow in grunge noir as only Larry Clark could have concocted it.

• J. Hoberman, Village Voice

  Slackly directed and badly acted.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  Director Larry Clark has served up another gritty look at lowlife scum, but the results this time aren't nearly as fascinating.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  This is a strong, powerful movie.

• Scott Weinberg, eFilmCritic.com

  As close to 'mainstream' as Clarks' ever going to get ... which isn't much.

• Robin Clifford, Reeling Reviews

  With talent like James Woods involved on both sides of the camera, I expect more quality.

• Liz Braun, Jam! Movies

  Another Day In Paradise is so generally overwrought that the willing suspension of disbelief is not really an option. On the other hand, you may find yourself caring about the characters.

• Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly

  A routine genre film.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, San Francisco Examiner

  Woods is great as usual.

• J.D. Lafrance, Film Threat

  James Woods proves yet again why he is consistently one of the best actors working today.

• Tom Meek, Film Threat

  For a base, downtrodden ordeal Clark's film is one compelling trip of a movie.

• Margaret A. McGurk, Cincinnati Enquirer

  I never walk out in the middle of a film, but with Another Day in Paradise, I came pretty darn close.

• Jason Clark, Matinee Magazine

  It had the richness of character and gripping narrative drive that director Larry Clark's first feature Kids did not have.

• Shlomo Schwartzberg, Boxoffice Magazine

  The filmic equivalent of a tabloid headline.

• John Wrathall, Sight and Sound

  Refreshingly, despite finding his original fame as a still photographer and for his meretricious Kids, Clark here seems more interested in performances than look or style.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  Part kiddie porn/part heist flick, Another Day in Paradise is Larry Clark's oftentimes stunning response to Gus Van Sant's Drugstore Cowboy.

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