| Original Score: 2/6 | Sep 22, 2007

Flannel Pajamas is so gorged with gab it feels like a filibuster.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 1, 2007

Better to rent Scenes From a Marriage, Manhattan or My Dinner With Andre and stay home -- flannel pajamas optional.

| Mar 22, 2007

In his sophomore feature, Lipsky doesn't feel the need to pump the movie with showy visual tricks. You don't even know he's there most of the time, which is probably a compliment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 2, 2007

Flannel Pajamas is a sharply observed dissection of a couple's relationship, from blind date to marriage to difficulties over everything from whether to get a dog to when to have a baby.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Feb 22, 2007

This is all quite fascinating.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 2, 2007

This is the kind of introspective drama in which a determined pair of young, very fine actors and a strong filmmaker put everything on the line to explore emotional truth wherever it exists.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jan 12, 2007

[Star Julianne] Nicholson does remarkable work in an unsympathetic role, helped by [director Jeff] Lipsky's fine control of his characters.

| Dec 1, 2006

It's as close to what the disintegration of a real-life relationship looks like as you'll ever see onscreen.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 1, 2006

Sometimes a movie improves on second viewing and I liked Flannel Pajamas better when I screened it again.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Nov 30, 2006

Mr. Lipsky needs more than two hours -- and many highly articulate conversations -- to get his co-protagonists to the breaking point. Yet the warning signs are there from the beginning.

| Nov 29, 2006

For all the time we spend watching Justin and Nicole negotiate their needs, we have no idea who these people are.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 24, 2006

There are moments in Jeff Lipsky's low-budget, high-octane battle of the sexes, when Stuart ... and Nicole ... dredge up a grubby intimacy that most relationship dramas avoid.

| Original Score: B- | Nov 23, 2006

Opaque acting, excruciating dialogue, and flat, affectless direction.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Nov 17, 2006

Ever been on a blind date that you knew would be dismal from the start? Well, this is the movie version of that date, stretched out over the slowest two hours imaginable.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 17, 2006

Flannel Pajamas has wonderful acting, meticulous and even thrilling camerawork. Its dialogue is terrific, cutting close to the bone without sacrificing realism for theatricality. And the story is packed with poisonous little surprises.

| Nov 16, 2006

As raw and biting as a December morning in Montauk, writer-director Jeff Lipsky's depiction of modern metropolitan romance honors the sensibilities of both John Cassavetes and Ingmar Bergman.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Nov 16, 2006

Though Jeff Lipsky's snoozefest, Flannel Pajamas, essentially consists of a couple talking nonstop for two hours, we never really understand what brought them together in the first place -- much less why they break up after two years together.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 15, 2006

The twin specters of Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen hover over this talky history of a relationship between two New Yorkers.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 15, 2006

Indie-film exec Jeff Lipsky's sophomore feature as writer-director shares with his distribution work a desire to restore some of the untidier virtues of '70s American film.

Full Review | Nov 14, 2006