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Quiet City (2007)

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Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 16
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Critic Reviews: 6
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 1

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In Aaron Katz's idiosyncratic and unpredictable drama Quiet City, Georgian Jamie travels from her Atlanta home to Brooklyn, to visit her friend Samantha. When Jamie arrives, however, Samantha seems to have disappeared from her residence - her phone is disconnected and she cannot be located. By sheer happenstance, Jamie runs into a stranger, Charlie, when she stops him to ask for directions. The two strike up an instant rapport and spend the rest of the day and night together - eating coleslaw,

Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.

Art House & International, Drama

Directed By: Aaron Katz

Written By: Aaron Katz, Erin Fisher, Cris Lankenau

In Theaters: Aug 29, 2007 Wide

On DVD: Jan 29, 2008

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Critic Reviews for Quiet City

All Critics (17) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (14) | Rotten (2)

Formally impressive but tedious.

September 19, 2007 Comment

Frank Scheck

Hollywood Reporter

Top Critic

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.

August 31, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Daily News

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Elizabeth Weitzman

New York Daily News

Top Critic

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.

August 31, 2007 Full Review Source: New York Post

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V.A. Musetto

New York Post

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

August 29, 2007 Full Review Source: Salon.com

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Andrew O'Hehir

Salon.com

Top Critic

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

August 29, 2007 Comment

Stephen Holden

New York Times

Top Critic

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

August 23, 2007 Full Review Source: Newsday

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John Anderson

Newsday

Top Critic

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

April 15, 2009 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

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.

July 22, 2008 Full Review Source: Film4

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Anton Bitel

Film4

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.

September 14, 2007 Full Review Source: Oregonian

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Shawn Levy

Oregonian

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.

September 1, 2007 Full Review Source: AV Club

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Nathan Rabin

AV Club

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.

August 31, 2007 Full Review Source: TV Guide's Movie Guide

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Maitland McDonagh

TV Guide's Movie Guide

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

August 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Time Out New York

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Mark Holcomb

Time Out New York

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.

June 30, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Threat

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Don R. Lewis

Film Threat

Quiet City was the festival highlight, for me.

June 27, 2007 Full Review Source: Stylus Magazine

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Sky Hirschkron

Stylus Magazine Source: Stylus Magazine

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Couple meet by chance, they talk, go to the park, visit friends, go to an art gallery and then a party. That's all there is to it, plenty of dialogue which keeps the interest as does the interaction of the leads though it still feels forced and not so natural. This may be down to the awkwardness of the characters

September 18, 2008

Luke Baldock

Super Reviewer

This movie will not be appreciated by everyone, and I'm not even sure that I appreciated it. Quiet City isn't really about anything, it's just a 78 minute look into a weekend in the lives of 2 twentysomethings in New York. They hang out, go to a friend's house, hang out, go to an art exhibit, go to a party, and then

April 22, 2008