Critic Reviews

• Lisa Rose, Newark Star-Ledger

  With its downtown context and mood of escalating desperation, the movie bears a strong resemblance to Martin Scorsese's Manhattan odyssey, After Hours.

• Lou Lumenick, New York Post

  Some fine performances shine through in Joe Maggio's pretentious, credulity-straining dramedy.

• Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News

  It's not surprising that director Joe Maggio got Hal Hartley to score his off-kilter drama. Both upend clichés through a deadpan visual style and mordant performances. As a result, both have had uneven success.

• Stephen Holden, New York Times

  Milk and Honey is the kind of nightmare- in-a-box you might expect if Neil LaBute remade Martin Scorsese's After Hours on a shoestring.

• Mark Holcomb, Village Voice

  A disarmingly effective reckoning with loss and regret.

• Prairie Miller, Long Island Press

  The characters each make their separate ways through Manhattan's cavernous underbelly, that is less milk and honey than a lunatic Dante's Inferno.

• Prairie Miller, Long Island Press

  The characters each make their separate ways through Manhattan's cavernous underbelly, that is less milk and honey than a lunatic Dante's Inferno.

• Edward Havens, FilmJerk.com

  Without a single redeeming character or moment that rings true, audiences will likely cheer for all the bad things that happen to this truly reprehensible couple.

• Kevin Allison, Premiere Magazine

  The acting is so intriguing, the plot so unpredictable and the imagery so vibrant, the whole thing is compelling from beginning to end.

• Maitland McDonagh, TV Guide's Movie Guide

  The contrivances culminate in a melancholy resolution that lends a certain quiet gravity to everything that precedes it, a small grace note that rings surprisingly true.

• , E! Online

  It'll leave you with a sour taste in your mouth.

• Chris Barsanti, Filmcritic.com

  aims for an After Hours-style, nighttime stew of insanity and coincidence but ends up merely showcasing meaningless lives

• David Sterritt, Christian Science Monitor

  Maggio's second movie is as smart and surprising as his first.

• Ed Gonzalez, Slant Magazine

  Maggio clogs his story with all sorts of serendipitous events but seems uninterested in looking at these chance encounters on any kind of existential or spiritual terms.

• Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, Spirituality and Practice

  Tells the story of an indomitable black woman's dignity and courage as she tries to make a new life for herself.

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