Critic Reviews

• Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

  Represents much of what is wonderful and fresh about the recent wave of ultra-low-budget American independent filmmaking.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  Austin, Texas, has never looked more unlovely, and its residents more clueless, than in Harmony and Me, a funny, wry mumblecore comedy by Bob Byington.

• Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

  In a flat, dry affect, the movie sings the breakup blues.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Despite the film's sketchy aesthetic and barely animate lead, its tone is carefully contrived: I'll wager no one in your circle is as dryly funny or spontaneously surreal as Harmony's nonsupport group.

• Karina Longworth, Time Out New York

  Harmony is a finely tuned comedy, complete with precisely scripted jokes and comic set pieces that swerve toward the playfully perverse.

• Vadim Rizov, Village Voice

  Slight, indifferently shot, and entirely lacking in ballast, Harmony and Me's sole justification for being is that it's consistently very funny.

• Peter Keough, Boston Phoenix

  This bagatelle from Bob Byington is Greenberg lite, or maybe an edgier The Office, or softcore mumblecore.

• Ron Wilkinson, Monsters and Critics

  A great new director with a great and laid back saga that will be too laid back for some but well worth the watching.

• Don R. Lewis, Film Threat

  Bob Byington's "Harmony and Me" is an indie gem that isn't at all what it appears to be at first glance.

• Kent Turner, Film-Forward.com

  It may be true that every generation deserves its droll slacker comedy. But every five years?

• Nick Schager, Slant Magazine

  A mumblecore-ish debut feature from writer-director Bob Byington that's far less interested in oblique conversational navel-gazing than in dry humor.

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