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Quiet City (2007)

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Reviews Counted:16

Fresh:14

Rotten:2

Average Rating:7/10

Runtime: 78 mins

Genre: Dramas

US Box Office: $0

Synopsis: When Jamie arrives in New York, she can't find the friend she's supposed to meet. Instead, she encounters Charlie on a subway platform, and he takes her all over the city in the span of one... When Jamie arrives in New York, she can't find the friend she's supposed to meet. Instead, she encounters Charlie on a subway platform, and he takes her all over the city in the span of one conversation-filled day. [More]

Starring: Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau, Sarah Hellman, Joe Swanberg

Starring: Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau, Sarah Hellman, Joe Swanberg, Tucker Stone

Director: Aaron Katz

Director: Aaron Katz
Screenwriter: Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau
Producer: Brendan McFadden, Ben Stambler
Composer: Keegan DeWitt
Studio: 600 West

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Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
10/18/08
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Formally impressive but tedious.

Full Review Source: Hollywood Reporter | comment Comment
09/19/07
Frank Scheck
Frank Scheck
Hollywood Reporter

Proof positive that life’s mundanities are even more tedious projected onto a movie screen.

Full Review Source: Time Out New York | comment Comment
08/30/07
Mark Holcomb
Mark Holcomb
Time Out New York

A contemplative widescreen experience that views its landscape -- the borderline-industrial hipster neighborhoods of Brooklyn, N.Y. -- with painterly patience.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
08/29/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com

Quiet City may be modest in budget and muted in its ambitions, but for anyone who imagines that truly independent American cinema is dead, this most chaste of romances is a quiet film worth shouting about.

Full Review Source: Channel 4 Film | comment Comment
07/22/08
Anton Bitel
Anton Bitel
Channel 4 Film

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07/24/08
David Jenkins
David Jenkins
Time Out

It's a wonderfully goofy movie that was a fun watch.

Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews | comment Comment
04/15/09
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

In order for such a small film like this to work, you have to kind of fall in love with the leads, and both Fisher and Lankenau make that easy to do.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
06/30/07
Don R. Lewis
Don R. Lewis
Film Threat

Although the movie is hardly more ambitious than its young protagonists, there's a lot of value in a lazy day. Quiet City knows where to find it.

Full Review Source: New York Daily News | comment Comment
08/31/07
Elizabeth Weitzman
Elizabeth Weitzman
New York Daily News

Quiet City often attains a floating, poetic buoyancy that pulls a fast one on gravity.

Full Review Source: Newsday | comment Comment
08/23/07
John Anderson
John Anderson
Newsday

Callow, self-centered, often infuriatingly inarticulate but filled with possibility; Katz and leads, who improvised much of their own dialogue, capture the contradictions with enough fragile charm that it's hard not to wish them well.

Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide | comment Comment
08/31/07
Maitland McDonagh
Maitland McDonagh
TV Guide's Movie Guide

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09/12/08
Matthew Turner
Matthew Turner
ViewLondon

In place of Before Sunrise's verbal fireworks, the aptly named Quiet City offers something more like linguistic sparklers -- modest, yes, but charming all the same.

Full Review Source: AV Club | comment Comment
09/01/07
Nathan Rabin
Nathan Rabin
AV Club

Quiet City is a slight film, but it's so pure and precise and honest that it takes on stature beyond its actual size. As a work of art, it makes a big noise indeed.

Full Review Source: Oregonian | comment Comment
09/14/07
Shawn Levy
Shawn Levy
Oregonian

Quiet City was the festival highlight, for me.

Full Review Source: Stylus Magazine | comment Comment
06/27/07
Sky Hirschkron
Sky Hirschkron
Stylus Magazine

Tender and sad, it is a fully realized work of mumblecore poetry.

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08/29/07
Stephen Holden
Stephen Holden
New York Times
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A talkfest like this is ripe for disaster, but Quiet City succeeds thanks to its two leads, Erin Fisher as Jamie and Cris Lankenau as Charlie. They're attractive and likable, and they hold our interest throughout.

Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
08/31/07
V.A. Musetto
V.A. Musetto
New York Post
 
 
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