Unidentified Objects

[Matthew] Jeffers and [Sarah] Hay have a strong chemistry, and they make Peter and Winona's vivacity and pain feel equally real, even when the movie around them is shading toward the phony.

Leland Frankel’s screenplay, the two lead performances and the compassionate direction from first-timer Zuleta make it a celestial wonder worth discovering.

Director Juan Felpe Zuleta and scriptwriter Leland Frankel haven't bothered to provide a plot, the film depends on what the pair of misfits see and do on the road to fill out the running time.

Inherently, the film is about a journey. The simple act of driving across Canada is an odyssey, but it’s deeper than that. They’re chasing after abstracts they hope will make sense of their time on Earth.

Unidentified Objects was a love letter to road films but it was also a deep dive into how our differences really don’t need to drive us apart.

[Unidentified Objects is] a charming story that effortfully tries to spotlight otherwise overlooked members of society.

As dynamic as these two actors are together, Unidentified Objects never really elevates itself beyond the standard buddy road trip film.


Wildly entertaining, refreshingly bold and unconventional, but not funny, bonkers or brilliant enough to join the club of midnight cult classics.

Both silly and sweet, this absurdist comedy puts a fresh twist on a familiar concept about two lost souls finding companionship while navigating a quirky road trip.

Unidentified Objects clearly succeeds in giving us one part of a two-part character study, which isn't quite enough.