Critic Reviews

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  One of those Sundance "comedies" that make you contemplate slitting your wrists.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  The performances are expert, but can't make up for a flat script and direction.

• Manohla Dargis, New York Times

  The funny, sad, offbeat, sometimes off-the-beat romance Expired is one of those precariously balanced movies that might fall to pieces with a different cast.

• Rafer Guzman, Newsday

  Despite terrific efforts from its lead players, Expired runs its meter out long before the end.

• David Fear, Time Out New York

  Both Patric and Morton give brazenly fearless performances, yet these talents are left tangoing to a tune that's nowhere near worthy of them.

• David Edelstein, New York Magazine

  Morton is one of those tingly actresses whose skin barely covers her soul, and to watch her search for tender mercies in a crazy-hostile world is a gift. The film is appallingly good.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  How likely is it that love, not to mention hot sex, can blossom between two people who've picked identical careers dedicated to punishing the rest of us? Delightfully kinky sex and the city meter maid romp.

• Jason McKiernan, Filmcritic.com

  one of the most inept, poorly-mounted productions of the decade

• Leo Goldsmith, indieWIRE

  Death and regret hang over the film palpably, and Miniucchi's willingness to put her characters through disaster and humiliation while still plainly empathizing with them is what keeps the film surprising and its characters winning, in spite of themselves

• Frank Ochieng, Movie Eye

  Unconventionally quirky in its unassuming blue-collar bluntness, Expired is comically horrifying in its examination of lonely people living on the fringe of professional obscurity and personalized disarray.

• Tim Grierson, L.A. Weekly

  Expired pretends to be a valentine to society's outcasts, but it's just one more indie comedy that mocks its characters while sucking up to its knowing audience.

• Lewis Beale, Film Journal International

  Miniucchi's screenplay is an unwieldy blend of pathos and unsettling moments, which become increasingly uninteresting as the film trudges to a dreary close.

• Ken Fox, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  Call it an anti-rom-com, and see it if you can.

• Pete Hammond, Boxoffice Magazine

  The temptation is to say Expired is closer to "Misfired," but there are just enough good things here (particularly Samantha Morton as a lonely-in-love meter maid) to avoid that label.

• James Rocchi, Common Sense Media

  Tough indie drama features great performances.

• Matt Pais, Metromix.com

  Turns its uncomfortable central relationship into a fascinating study of symbiotic personalities.

• Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

  Locating both Claire's loneliness and Jay's anger as partial outgrowths of their detested profession handing out parking meter violation tickets, Expired coasts along on a distinctively odd wavelength.

• Emanuel Levy, EmanuelLevy.Com

  Assuming the shape of an old-fashioned indie, this offbeat romantic fable is a minor work that promises better things from its director; the narrative is considerably elevated by lead performers Jason Patric and the endlessly creative Samantha Morton.

• Prairie Miller, NewsBlaze

  How likely is it that love, not to mention hot sex, can blossom between two people who've picked identical careers dedicated to punishing the rest of us? Delightfully kinky sex and the city meter maid romp.

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