Runoff Reviews
August 7, 2015
Promising work that's worth checking out.
June 29, 2015
Levin dares something practically unheard of in modern Hollywood movies: she asks the audience to watch, feel, and come to their own conclusions.
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| Original Score: 8/10
June 27, 2015
A little too reluctant to take a stand against chemicals but worth seeing for its empathy for its main character who is forced to carry out a crime that puts her in league with Monsanto.
June 26, 2015
This isn't a perfect movie... But I can say without hesitation that if you want to be able to say you were there when a great American filmmaker's career kicked off, you need to see Runoff.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
June 25, 2015
An intelligent, sophisticated and mesmerizing slow-burn thriller that's grounded in humanism. Patient viewers will be rewarded the most.
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| Original Score: 8.71/10
June 25, 2015
The 90-minute movie is a tightly compressed exploration of forces that make it next to impossible to operate a small business when a voracious corporation moves in for the kill.
June 25, 2015
Truly, Runoff can be an uncomfortable film to watch -- both because Levin's subject matter is supposed to make us uncomfortable and because her film leaves so much untended, is in the end so uneven.
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| Original Score: 7/10
June 25, 2015
Even when Levin's symbolism is a little on the nose, these elements are balanced with enough small details and moments that they blend in to the larger texture of the characters' lives.
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| Original Score: B
June 23, 2015
The movie achieves an understated resonance through Levin's emotionally sensitive compositions and her clued-in portrayal of life in a middle-American farming community.
June 21, 2015
This emotionally affecting film never loses sight of the ethical complexity of forsaking a community in the name of an individual.
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| Original Score: 3/4
June 17, 2015
Intelligent and entertaining, Runoff moves its audience from what was perhaps a vague, wistful notion of the rural existence of family farming to witness the harsh realities of a tragically disappearing American way of life
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
June 10, 2015
Levin, who also co-edited, gets naturalistic performances from all her actors, and tells her tale with a narrative economy that, despite the leisurely pace, never lingers too long in a scene.
June 10, 2015
Runoff's finely-observed, understated performances invoke a kind of heartland neo-realism.
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| Original Score: B+
June 10, 2015
Runoff may never quite cohere as the broadness of some of the writing but as a demonstration of real talent -- and real passion -- it's a strong and superbly-shot debut for director-writer Levin.
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| Original Score: B-
June 10, 2015
A hugely promising feature debut for writer-director-editor Kimberly Levin.