... The film’s realistic style makes everything convincing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 8, 2022

narrative that unfolds like a relationship, Cicada sheds its skin slowly, and then all at once, transforming into something loud and beautiful.

| Jan 22, 2022

Mostly charming, though structurally wobbly and tonally uneven.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2022

This is a watchable, fluent indie film with some lovely ambient cityscape shots of New York, though perhaps a little emotionally and dramatically unfocused.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 18, 2022

The absorbing romantic drama "Cicada" feels as real as it gets.

| Nov 3, 2021

While there's the occasional amusingly idiosyncratic section of dialogue that sounds like a series of stagily poetic non-sequiturs, much of the couple's bonding feels straightforward and unremarkable.

| Oct 28, 2021

A flawed yet compelling mix of sex, raw emotion and deep romanticism.

| Oct 30, 2020

Fifer's debut feature processes lived experience into a cracked, anguished work of autofiction, raggedly cathartic and needfully unresolved as it sketches young queer lives in different stages of self-acceptance.

| Oct 19, 2020

"Cicada" is a sexy, sometimes searing act of self-analysis that hopefully not only brings Fifer some proximity to catharsis, but also a steady career in indie queer filmmaking in his future.

| Original Score: B | Sep 4, 2020