Critic Reviews

• Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times

  A movie where the only conception of life seems to come from other movies makes for no kind of movie at all.

• V.A. Musetto, New York Post

  You would think that by now budding filmmakers would have given up on making a Woody Allen movie.

• Nathan Lee, New York Times

  This sort of thing was indulgent enough the first time around; transplanted to the mumblecore milieu, it's intolerable.

• Ronnie Scheib, Variety

  Fresh out of NYU film school, Blitstein films what he knows: His tale of a young filmmaker's writer's block gleefully incorporates all manner of antic styles, from Mack Sennett-style double-takes to Felliniesque black-and-white pantomime.

• Drew Toal, Time Out New York

  Jonathan Blitstein's debut feature works reasonably well by letting the characters' collective emotional retardation speak for itself.

• Vadim Rizov, Village Voice

  It's pretty hilarious.

• Sara Maria Vizcarrondo, Boxoffice Magazine

  The film ends up feeling like even creative inspiration and apotheosis is hopeless because all that can ever emerge from these characters is derivative of some earlier work. When you look at it this way, Chirp can't help seeming like a time capsule...

• Matt Pais, Metromix.com

  The line between being pretentious and calling it out is awfully thin ... continually points a finger at obnoxious New York behavior while simultaneously perpetuating it.

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