Disappointing low-key modern film noir.

| Original Score: C+ | Apr 25, 2008

Seems to want to make a point but never does.

| Mar 1, 2007

Again, Nunez proves himself a master of understatement, presenting another poignant, slice-of-life drama peopled with vulnerable, fully fleshed-out characters caught-up in a complex situation.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 20, 2007

It's flawed but no less fascinating for its mood of simmering tension on the fringes of the American dream.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 28, 2006

There's so much simmering behind the characters that the film seems to get away from Nunez, which is fine. The messy emotions and illogic of human nature defines this drama.

| Original Score: B | Jul 27, 2006

The third entry lacks the subtle power of the previous two efforts.

Full Review | Jul 13, 2006

The talent is still there, the film better than most. It just needs less crime, more love.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 13, 2006

Keeps you entertained throughout its two hours, which says a lot about Nunez's storytelling.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 23, 2006

A skeeter noir bogged down in the unconvincing pulp of a melodrama without conviction.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 16, 2006

Proves that while Ulee's Gold was an exceptional movie, it wasn't a fluke. Nuez just needs to search past the Panhandle for fresh material.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 16, 2006

Despite good performances, this attempt to intertwine a crime thriller with a love triangle never gels...Fans of Ulee's Gold, Ruby in Paradise, and A Flash of Green are likely to feel disappointed by this decidedly lesser effort.

Full Review | Jun 16, 2006

The stuff of pulp, seriously at odds with what the writer-director has always done best. That is, show the inner workings of people, their needs, their fears, their small dreams.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 9, 2006

Nunez's fans will appreciate his ability to evoke a palpable atmosphere. But there's just not enough spark in his scorched setting.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 2, 2006

Longtime independent writer-director Victor Nunez brings a rare combination of homegrown regional sensibility and genuine filmmaking skills to his low-key stories of small-town life on Florida's gulf coast.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2006

Nunez's multidimensional character development, with fine performances by Olyphant, Brolin, Wynter and Angela Bettis as one of Sonny's old flames, lends weight to the schematic plot points.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 31, 2006

[The love triangle] plays more like canned heat than blazing inferno...

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | May 31, 2006

It's a heartfelt movie that could have used a zigzaggier undercurrent, though Olyphant, in the sort of role that Paul Newman used to swagger through, has a star's easy command.

| Original Score: B | May 31, 2006

As they say, two out of three ain't bad, and we look forward to more winners by Nunez.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 31, 2006

Sometimes it's best to leave those old scripts in the trunk, a view borne out by Coastlines,a melodramatic step backward for writer-director Victor Nunez after his last two pictures.

| May 30, 2006

Enough of the ingredients for a sultry downscale noir are in place in Coastlines, that once the film turns perversely goody-good, it leaves you feeling vaguely disgruntled.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 30, 2006