Apartment Zero 1989

Dave Kehr, Chicago Tribune: It's that grab for political significance that does Apartment Zero in -- that turns what might have been a modestly successful psychological thriller into a messily failed art film. Read more

Peter Rainer, Los Angeles Times: This overwrought and underdeveloped psychological thriller with heavy-handed political implications adds up to exactly nothing. Read more

Carrie Rickey, Philadelphia Inquirer: Give it zero for conduct, zero for concept and 100 for chutzpah. Read more

Vincent Canby, New York Times: It pretends to be a psychological-political melodrama but plays like the work of a dilettante; that is, the work of someone who wants to make movies, has the means to make them, but doesn't, as yet, know what he wants to make them about. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: Baroque in style, with echoes of Hitchcock and Polanski (among others), and an impressively aggressive score by Elia Cmiral, this is a powerful, pungent work that shouldn't be missed. Read more

Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: [This] film, a dazzling mix of mirth and menace, is that rare find: a thriller that plumbs the violence of the mind. Read more

Tom Charity, Time Out: The result is largely unconvincing; the dialogue sounds like translation, and the direction also has an affected air. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Apartment Zero emerges as a genuinely creepy, disturbing and gripping psychological piece. Read more

Desson Thomson, Washington Post: A minor skid for Donovan is sure-driving for too many others. Read more

Rita Kempley, Washington Post: It gets your attention, makes you laugh and passes the time for a while. Read more