Critic Reviews

• Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle

  Even when the movie exploits cliches - cue washed-out colors and eerie scraping noises - it exploits them in limited quantities, portioning out only what's required by mood and plot.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Almost all of the film's remarkably static scenes reveal too little and confuse too much.

• John Anderson, Variety

  All dressed up with nowhere to go, the visually adept Apart has a narrative rhythm as disjointed as the personalities of its lead teenagers

• Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice

  To understand Apart's Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown tommyrot any better, one would need a psychic bond to first-time writer/director Aaron Rottinghaus, for his movie doesn't do much of a job explaining it.

• Frank Swietek, One Guy's Opinion

  Tries too hard and ends up substituting pretension for punch.

• Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

  "Apart" is designed to be a so-what- really-happened type of thriller, but since we often know stuff before Noah does, the thrill's sometimes gone by the time you get there.

• Brian Orndorf, BrianOrndorf.com

  Handsomely mounted, but far too languid to penetrate the senses in the same mind-blowing manner writer/director Aaron Rottinghaus intends.

• Chris Hewitt (St. Paul), St. Paul Pioneer Press

  "Apart" is only 80 minutes long, but it feels like it goes on for twice that.

• Maitland McDonagh, Film Journal International

  Imagine Romeo and Juliet by way of Donnie Darko and you'll have some idea what to expect from this atmospheric story of star-crossed romance with a supernatural twist.

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