Critic Reviews

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Intermittently beautiful but frustratingly leaden, Shutterbug labors ineffectually to promote authenticity over artifice.

• Ronnie Scheib, Variety

  Spins experimental imagery and mystical manifestations into a gossamer-thin, ponderously off-the-wall plot.

• S. James Snyder, Time Out New York

  Writer-director Minos Papas channels both David Lynch and Dante's Inferno, but Shutterbug lacks the poetry -- or precision -- of a true phantasmic freak-out.

• Andrew Schenker, Village Voice

  Papas makes our familiar city seem just as invitingly sinister as you once imagined it to be.

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  An overambitious production which, while not quite ready for primetime due to techical flaws, at least exhibits enough promise in terms of acting, plot and camera angles to make this critic curious to see Papas's next picture. Dante's Purgatory!

• Matthew Nestel, Boxoffice Magazine

  Its drowsy work and parlor tricks suck the life out of what's supposed to be a sleepless city

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

  An intriguing, elliptical and visually stylish journey into the unknown. It's a well-crafted, intelligent and unpredictable mystery that requires repeated viewings.

• Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

  One-third lysergic plutonian tour, one-third attempted digital-art mindf---, and one-third pointlessly phantasmagoric twist thriller.

• Harvey S. Karten, Compuserve

  A photographer looks at a Dante-esque New York late at night and runs into trouble in a micro-budget movie that's more doggerel than poetry.

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