A promising feature-length debut from Norwegian director Joachim Trier.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 21, 2020

Embraces the old while forging brave new trails in the art form.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 6, 2019

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

| Original Score: A- | Sep 7, 2011

Stylistically bold, impressive feature debut about creative youth

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 11, 2011

| Original Score: A | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: A- | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Reprise alternately shows punk energy, library hush and comic anxiety. And despite ominous portents, the ending is cockeyed optimistic.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

Trier is having more fun in the editing room than his story requires and he'd be well advised to spend more time in the deeper development and dramatic elements of his characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 30, 2008

This story about two aspiring writers in their early 20s has the fearlessness and vivacity of a first novel, and its playful approach to chronology and voice-over narration serves to amplify its themes instead of coming off as a show-off trick.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 1, 2008

This is that rare film where a daring style is connected to real substance, and that's an exciting thing to experience in a first-time director.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 28, 2008

Although there's no romantic triangle as in Francois Truffaut's classic 1961 film Jules and Jim, it seems obvious that film was an influence here.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 28, 2008

Reprise is an ordinary tale of post-adolescent angst that would benefit from a cleaner plot line, clearer characterizations and more intriguing situations.

| Original Score: C | Jul 28, 2008

I realized the movie had lost me when it occurred to me that after spending many minutes with Phillip and Erik, I had no interest in reading any novel that either of them might have written.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 25, 2008

... film full of wry comments and textural gestures - Trier mixes film stock and references to M온라인카지노추천-style jump cuts and the French New Wave (Truffaut's Jules and Jim is an obvious point of reference) to the extent that the pyrotechnics threaten to b

Full Review | Original Score: 86/100 | Jul 25, 2008

Its fresh opening combined with the satisfying resolution in the final 20 minutes help to compensate for a fizzling mid-section.

| Jul 12, 2008

As auspicious -- and breathless -- a debut as Reservoir Dogs was for Tarantino.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 3, 2008

Like Jules and Jim or Band of Outsiders blended with A Hard Day's Night.

Full Review | Original Score: a- | Jun 27, 2008