A gently subversive outing full of nicely limned characters.

Full Review | Jun 6, 2008

Bromell ... is adept at piercing the heart of dysfunctional family ties.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2001

It's less the plot than the texture that makes the film such an engaging surprise.

Full Review | Original Score: A- | May 17, 2001

The results are quietly electrifying.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2001

Stylish and assured, but it's finally too studied to get the kind of emotional heft it's looking for from its effects.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 20, 2001

Radiates quiet and calm, while simmering with tension both comic and tragic.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2001

A defiantly offbeat and accomplished piece with a dream ensemble acting out one man's nightmare.

Full Review | Apr 12, 2001

A black-comedy gem.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 5, 2001

A terrific little time bomb of a film.

Full Review | Mar 23, 2001

Superlative.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 8, 2001

Panic offers a more naturalistic analysis of male midlife crisis than the grotesquely overpraised American Beauty.

Full Review | Feb 8, 2001

The movie equivalent of a great read at the beach.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 7, 2001

A first film made with joy and with a writer's gift for character and dialogue.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 7, 2001

There's a sense that the picture wants to constantly stick its tongue in its cheek but never wants to get caught at it.

Full Review | Feb 7, 2001

There has never been an evocation of middle-aged disappointment like it.

| Feb 7, 2001

Mr. Bromell's shrewdness in constructing narrative is a bit more advanced than his directing skills, but he has worked out Panic intelligently and supported his script with an able cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 7, 2001