Critic Reviews

• , New York Daily News

  Though the mumblecore esthetic is familiar and the movie's ultimate impact slight, the filmmakers do find a fresh and modestly amusing twist by tossing their hipster out of his natural habitat.

• Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times

  Explores the limits of cultural isolation with ramshackle avidity.

• David Fear, Time Out New York

  Like its hapless hero, Wah Do Dem simply mopes along before aimlessly stumbling to a halt.

• Aaron Hillis, Village Voice

  Methinks we're meant to actually feel sorry for this overprivileged twerp in neon sunglasses.

• Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter

  The immediacy of the filmmaking helps to fill the void, and Bones' unaffected performance has its moments.

• Rob Nelson, Variety

  Slight but winning and often funny, the scrappy Amerindie Wah Do Dem is a fish-out-of-water comedy driven by Sean "Bones" Sullivan's offbeat performance.

• Derek Malcolm, This is London

  It's impossible not to like this small-budget road movie...

• Rich Cline, Shadows on the Wall

  This scruffy and offhanded comedy-drama has a certain realistic charm that keeps us smiling all the way trough. It's a cleverly made film with a story that continually moves forward, taking us on an enjoyable series of adventures.

• Matthew Turner, ViewLondon

  Impressively directed and nicely observed, this is a scruffily charming indie drama with an engaging central performance from Sean Bones.

• David Edwards, Daily Mirror [UK]

  Made for a mere $75,000, the film's a wry portrait of an American out of his environment and out of his depth...

• Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK]

  An unusual American indie, not without interest but strangely passionless and forgettable.

• Anton Bitel, Film4

  In this slacker road movie, myth and politics are packaged as an engagingly chilled-out series of culture-clash misadventures.

• Avi Offer, NYC Movie Guru

  Has breathtaking scenery, but it's a lazy, meandering and unimaginative adventure with a poorly developed, frustratingly naïve and dull protagonist.

• Kam Williams, NewsBlaze

  Wah do dem? 'Dem a loot, dem a shoot, dem a wail!' in shanty towns as the late Desmond Dekker might say, since the harder they come, they harder they apparently still fall.

• Joseph Jon Lanthier, Slant Magazine

  Wah Do Dem is a brief, peripatetic love letter to Jamaican tropes scrawled on hemp stationary.

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