Nobody Walks 2012

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The acting ensemble is crucial. Everyone's really fine. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: You feel the characters' pangs as they spin out of control, and you are reminded of how easy it is for a careless sexual adventurer to destroy relationships and families on a whim, without even fully realizing it. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The actors are all completely wasted in this dumb travesty of fumbling, unfocused, oversexed numbskulls who work in the movie business. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Artfully constructed but hollow at its core, "Nobody Walks" makes it impossible to stop watching while simultaneously making it impossible to care about what's happening. Read more

Nathan Rabin, AV Club: Nobody Walks is a film of acutely observed little moments that unfortunately don't add up to anything of substance. It's a forgettable shrug of a movie, pleasant enough, but unlikely to linger. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: Though only 85 minutes long, Nobody Walks rambles, jumping from vignette to vignette with nothing in the way of narrative drive or sparkling dialogue to justify its existence. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Sensitively written, nicely shot, expertly acted, and intelligently ambiguous, "Nobody Walks" still manages to send you out with a shrug. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: This dreary independent drama is essentially an art-world soap opera, but without the melodramatic verve that makes some soap operas interesting. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Russo-Young studies the strange species of affluent Angelenus erectus under a microscope that distorts every character into unbelievability. Read more

Amanda Mae Meyncke, Film.com: ...a self-important nightmare ... shallow script and boring situations. Perhaps that is the simplest way to sum up the film, boring. Offensively boring. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A young woman's arrival creates sexual upheavals in a cool, artistic L.A. household, in an unsatisfying drama that might have worked better as a comedy. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: If you allow yourself to drift with it, rather than get frustrated by all the non sequiturs, "Nobody Walks" becomes a more enjoyable film. Read more

Ian Buckwalter, NPR: Russo-Young's characters simply feel like complex, confused people trying desperately to be happy without also destroying their lives with their poor impulse control. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: [A] lackluster indie drama ... Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: What we have here is a household ripe with seduction, lust, betrayal and repression, all kept below the surface by increasingly strained good manners. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: The direction is decent, and the film is handsome. But it's finally frustrating, enigmatic in a way that suggests emptiness more than mystery. Read more

Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Has the fragranced whiff of a missed opportunity. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: The characters, especially Kolt's Italian tutor, demonstrate they have the impulse control of toddlers. Read more

R. Emmet Sweeney, Time Out: For a film about sexual conquest, Nobody Walks is a frustratingly flaccid affair. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Nobody Walks looks and sounds great. Read more

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: Evocative ... Read more