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praised the film as "an ultra-low budget drama of considerable accomplishment and sometimes extraordinary power" and wrote, "This is probably as devastating a portrayal and indictment of modern male insensitivity as any film has given us recently... One of the year’s more impressive debuts."
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have joined forces in presenting Tim McCann’s knockout debut feature... A thoroughly unsettling and sensitive drama of acute psychological insight."
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