Charlotte Sometimes Reviews
Nitrate Online
Dry but occasionally interesting independent feature.
| Original Score: 3/5
Movie Eye
Fittingly probing, sensual, mysterious and raw. Byler's exposition is vastly taut, revealing, and firmly perceptive. Charlotte Sometimes radiates with invigorating absorption
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
Film and Felt
Though the themes aren't exactly groundbreaking, they're executed skillfully enough to make the movie well worth seeing - for fans of the genre, at any rate.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Top CriticThe film's nervous reticence makes it both precious and a little unwieldy, like a matchstick palace built on a subway platform.
Filmcritic.com
a rarity in American films
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
May not be gripping in conventional ways, but it's daring.
| Original Score: B
Austin Chronicle
As an antidote to talky American indies involving twentysomething romantic conundrums, Charlotte Sometimes hits just the right note.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Blunt Review
Charlotte Sometimes nails the subtle psychotic element that circles budding relationships.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel
The foursome of actors, especially actresses Yuan and Kim, fill their portrayals with a smoldering, sometimes desperate, yearning.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Sometimes engaging, sometimes amusing and ultimately surprising.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Oregonian
An erotic mystery of sorts, the film works because it's laconic rather than talky and its actors are all up for the material.
A smartly made, hedonistic spectacle of alluring, nubile characters, sun-warmed narcissism and breathtaking color.
TV Guide's Movie Guide
A romantic but nevertheless clear-eyed look at the things we do for love.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
It's a hushed work of restrained emotions, elliptical storytelling and spare dialogue, peopled with smart, authentic characters who have drawn you into their lives before you know it.
| Original Score: 3/4
Whether or not it's a pose, the film's poised reticence is refreshing in context -- a rebuke to the contemporary crop of blabbermouthed American indies.
Movie Boeuf
More interesting than arresting, perhaps, Charlotte Sometimes is an intelligent piece of filmmaking that promises more than it delivers.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Eric Byler demonstrates a refreshing trust in his material and his audience, crafting a compact, intriguing drama from understated performances and a subtle visual sensibility.
A work of the utmost subtlety and perception, it marks the outstanding feature debut of writer-director Eric Byler, who understands the power of the implicit and the virtues of simplicity and economy.
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| Original Score: 4/5
