Wristcutters - A Love Story (2006)

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Opportunities to comment on the ethical grey areas of suicide are mostly squandered and, as the pointless digressions begin to pile up, your mind begins to drift from the action on screen.

November 22, 2007 Full Review

David Jenkins

Time Out

Top Critic

Wristcutters is a small film of ambitions nicely scaled to the performances and story. Who knew that affectless characters could be so oddly affecting?

November 8, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

It's such an original piece of work and I love the deliberately bleak cinematography.

November 6, 2007

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

All this sounds rather grim, and indeed it is -- but this backward Heaven Can Wait is also, thanks to [director] Dukic's inventive imagination, surprisingly involving and ultimately sweet.

November 2, 2007 Full Review

Moira MacDonald

Seattle Times

Top Critic

Wristcutters is a cut above most low-budget American indies, with something original to say about the human condition and an artful way of saying it.

November 2, 2007 Full Review

Ruthe Stein

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

The future of Wristcutters as a cult favorite is less assured. Rather than benefiting from repeated viewings, the movie's charm is pretty much spent after the first half hour.

November 2, 2007 Full Review | Comment (1)

John Monaghan

Detroit Free Press

Top Critic

This road movie romcom won?t leave you reaching for the razor blades.

October 11, 2010 Full Review

Ian Berriman

SFX Magazine

Having some laughs over suicide.

June 10, 2008 Full Review

Dennis Schwartz

Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A postmortem suicide heaven filled with slit personalities, not quite born again dime store messiahs, and a grimy downscale pizza dive.

March 29, 2008 Full Review

Prairie Miller

NewsBlaze

Goran Dukic adapts Etgar Keret's story with surreal whimsy and directs his "Route 666" tour through a wasteland of nothingness with deadpan understatement.

March 28, 2008 Full Review

Sean Axmaker

MSN.com

Wristcutters: A Love Story is like a suicidal Wizard of Oz.

March 25, 2008 Full Review

Michael Ferraro

Bronsonfive

It's certainly melancholic, occasionally funny, and ultimately life-affirming. But overall, it feels as if writer-director Goran Dukic dropped a rather promising ball.

March 6, 2008 Full Review

Tricia Olszewski

Washington City Paper

It misses the opportunity to examine why a community of people - each of whom has already given up on life - would band together to form a new society of desperate misfits.

February 22, 2008 Full Review

Amy Nicholson

I.E. Weekly

It is a staggeringly awful road movie, not much enlivened by the presence of Tom Waits as a wizened participant.

November 23, 2007 Full Review

Derek Malcolm

This is London

The purgatorial premise is pleasingly eccentric but, in the end, Wristcutters falls victim to its washed-out mood, and limps bloodlessly to a close.

November 23, 2007 Full Review

Cath Clarke

Guardian [UK]

A dreary, self-consciously quirky indie flick that seems to go on forever, despite an economical running time.

November 23, 2007 Full Review

Daily Mirror [UK]

Veering from witty to occasionally trite, Wristcutters: A Love Story has plenty of originality on its side, but never manages to be more than the sum of its self-consciously quirky parts.

November 23, 2007 Full Review

Saxon Bullock

Film4

A little self-consciously kooky but with an ace soundtrack that combines gypsy punksters Gogol Bordello with real-life plug-pullers this sure beats putting your head in the oven.

November 23, 2007 Full Review

Neil Smith

Total Film

Dark subject matter, but Goran Dukic's film is whimsical and determinedly optimistic about life.

November 23, 2007 Full Review

Paul Arendt

BBC

For the better part of the journey this a bizarrely uplifting yarn - razor sharp, you might say.

November 23, 2007 Full Review

Tim Evans

Sky Movies

• 1. Mikal: Are you joking? Do you guys like it here? Who the hell likes being stuck in a place where you can't even smile? It's hot as balls, everybody's an asshole. I just wanna go home.
  – Submitted by Justin C (5 months ago)
• 1. Zia: I think she cried at my funeral, I don't mean to brag about it or anything, but I'm pretty sure she did. Sometimes I can picture her talking to some guy she feels really close to, about how they lowered me into the grave all pathetic and shriveled up like a melted chocolate bar, and how we never actually got a chance. Then the guy fucks her real nice, fuck it's all about making her feel better.
  – Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)
• 1. Zia: They went to the North Pole or whatever the place Nanuk is from is called. He wanted to meet her family and get into that throat singing, saw playing, weird instruments, and all that stuff. It's good that he's back into music, I think. And me? I think I finally understand what Kneller was trying to say.It only happens if it doesn't matter. It comes without effort. Maybe Eugene's right. Maybe I only get stuck on girls I don't have a chance of being with. I am glad for Mikal, though. I hope she got her visa all straightened out. I mean, she did say she'd be right back. Then again, Eugene's old wisdom is when a girl says that, she never does actually come back.
  – Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)
• 1. Zia: You remember the other day when you were talking about missing things from life and how you wanted to go back and I told you I didn't miss anything?
  2. Mikal: Yeah.
  3. Zia: Well... When I'm here, with you, I kind of miss myself, the way I used to be.
  4. Mikal: What were you like?
  5. Zia: I was happy at a time, obviously before I came here, but...
  6. Mikal: Yeah.
  7. Zia: Something about being here with you reminds me of that, it's just, I don't know, it's just weird to me that you can feel that in a place like this. We're all... We're all dead.
  8. Mikal: You know what? Most of the people that I knew before I got here were either half dead or just completely dead already...
  – Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)
• 1. Eugene: I'm not sitting in the back.
  2. Zia: Why not?
  3. Eugene: 'Cause everybody knows guy in the back seat doesn't have a cock.
  – Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)
• 1. Zia: Being here with you reminds me of what I was like before my suicide.
  2. Mikal: What were you like?
  3. Zia: I was happy.
  – Submitted by Dov D (7 months ago)

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