Gemini can prove to be a little bit vapid plot-wise, but the casting of Kirke and Kravitz makes the film addictively watchable.

| Oct 31, 2024

Gemini feels like the first draft of a movie that could have been developed into something more resonant.

| Apr 12, 2018

The word "beguiling" came to mind throughout.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 6, 2018

Kirke, so wonderful in "Mistress America," and Cho, of the underappreciated "Columbus," are endlessly fascinating to watch, but the gossamer-thin material underserves them.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 5, 2018

It starts suggestively and enigmatically, then straightens-and flattens-everything out, including the emotional and moral landscape of its characters.

| Apr 5, 2018

[Aaron] Katz's longtime cinematographer Andrew Reed renders the L.A. nightscape in forbidding blues, purples, and shades of crimson that visually, at least, recall early Italian maestros Bava and Argento.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 5, 2018

[Kirke] possesses an endearing, thoroughly non-actressy quality. She feels completely real and unrehearsed, like she's saying the lines for the first time.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 5, 2018

It is among the emptiest movies I've ever seen, beginning with a production design filled with sets in roomy designer houses with no personality whatsoever (and that's probably the point).

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 5, 2018

It's a variation on a formula laced with a hipster-ish vibe that keeps undercutting itself with bitterness and bemused dread: Forget it, Jake, it's Silverlake.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 31, 2018

Gemini is a shimmering puzzler that begins with an act of Land Ho!-esque palling-around before warping into an unlikely detective story in the Cold Weather vein.

| Mar 30, 2018

There's a ghostly aura over Katz's L.A., even in broad daylight; the city feels thick with the possibility of double lives.

| Mar 30, 2018

Gemini is cut from neo-noir cloth, following in the footsteps of some of the best in the genre.

| Mar 30, 2018

There is no doubt that the film is more than just a monochromatic Pinterest mood board. And yet, it doesn't really push things to the next level, either.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 30, 2018

Gemini is a decent little thriller that's been spruced up by a very impressive Instagram filter.

| Mar 30, 2018

What does it mean when a movie's setting is so rapturously rendered that its characters, its plot and even the merest whiff of suspense evaporates into a haze? In the case of Gemini, that's not entirely a bad thing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2018

A moody noir pop-up, "Gemini" is writer/director Aaron Katz's alluring, self-reflexive Los Angeles-set mystery that also doubles as a pictorial mash note to the city's gleaming spaces and dreaming inhabitants.

| Mar 29, 2018

A pleasurably drifty, low-wattage mystery ...

| Mar 29, 2018

Kirke is always watchable and a good presence on screen, but so much about "Gemini" is so contrived that here she looks a little lost in the story at times.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 28, 2018

It's a delicious appetizer but you'll crave more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 28, 2018

As visually appealing as much of Gemini is, it wouldn't work nearly so well without Lola Kirke playing Jill.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 27, 2018