Donovan is a born filmmaker in his own right. With a good script he might establish himself next time out as an important director. Apartment Zero is the work of a genuinely eccentric mind.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 9, 2023

A calculated attempt to combine the sensibility of the Hollywood psycho-noir with an honest examination of sexual desire’s connection with imagination and movies

| Aug 16, 2022

Compelling, bizarre and darkly hilarious.

| May 20, 2020

[This] film, a dazzling mix of mirth and menace, is that rare find: a thriller that plumbs the violence of the mind.

| Feb 9, 2015

This overwrought and underdeveloped psychological thriller with heavy-handed political implications adds up to exactly nothing.

| Feb 9, 2015

The film's intriguing perversity compensates for the excesses of its plot and presentation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 9, 2015

Colin Firth is a first-rate young actor and Hart Brocher has the sex appeal to suggest magnetic nastiness, but the deeper they sink into this cesspit, the less you care.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 9, 2015

Not without humor, Apartment Zero is a titillating foray into the dangerous, the unexpected and the macabre.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 9, 2015

Give it zero for conduct, zero for concept and 100 for chutzpah.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2015

It's that grab for political significance that does Apartment Zero in -- that turns what might have been a modestly successful psychological thriller into a messily failed art film.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 9, 2015

Here's an offbeat thriller that never quite realizes its potential.

| Feb 9, 2015

Stylish and intriguing mystery tale made on a low budget

| Original Score: B- | Jun 27, 2011

It remains intriguing even when it sort of derails in the final reel.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 27, 2010

Apartment Zero emerges as a genuinely creepy, disturbing and gripping psychological piece.

| Jul 7, 2010

Maybe it's no surprise that the decade in which AIDS reared its ugly head produced an astonishing number of films concerning dangerously repressed homosexual protagonists.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10 | May 5, 2008

Donovan's bizarre, riveting thriller surely belongs on any list of the best "movies you've never heard of."

| Mar 16, 2007

A victory of style over substance, with crisp direction and a pair of remarkable performances carefully obscuring a very shaky screenplay.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2007

If you have a taste for a true psychological thriller, Apartment Zero is one to treasure. Again and again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 1, 2007

The result is largely unconvincing; the dialogue sounds like translation, and the direction also has an affected air.

| Jun 24, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 4, 2005