Winged Creatures 2009

Luke Y. Thompson, L.A. Weekly: A movie like this tends to come out at least once a year. Read more

Ben Lyons, At the Movies: [A] well acted ensemble piece that I think you should see. Read more

S. James Snyder, Time Out: The anxiety is deafening in this flimsy symphony of shattered lives, which -- like that confounding Oscar winner Crash -- confuses entropy for empathy. Read more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: Frierich's hook is, well, killer. And Woods is patient with his story, letting small glances and tiny actions speak volumes. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The grand statement it wants to make plays shallow instead of deep, leaving the film too weak-kneed to carry the weight of its broken world. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: Fragments is both deeply self-serious and essentially meaningless, the sort of we're-all-connected tragedy in which birds fly free while humans remain stuck in place. Read more

Manohla Dargis, New York Times: The casting directors of Fragments deserve credit for assembling so much talent in one modest movie; if only Rowan Woods, the director, knew what to do with them. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: The pace is too languid to sustain much viewer concentration, and whatever the characters go through seems only peripherally connected to the shooting in the diner. Close, but no cigar. Read more

Ed Gonzalez, Village Voice: The hell that Paul Haggis hath wrought grows exponentially by the day. Read more