It’s a moving film about time, ambition, aging, wormholes, and the all-consuming power of love. And the film’s quaint, handmade qualities help make the tears it remorselessly jerks out of you feel like honest ones.

| Dec 9, 2023

The unconventional screenplay examines repressed dreams, family issues and brain clogging with some caricatural undertones and a layered surrealism that serves well its narrative purpose.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 28, 2023

This quasi-sci-fi indie plays its surreal events to deeply poignant effect... This is the kind of movie you’ll immediately want to rewind to absorb the full weight of.

| Original Score: 77/100 | Jul 27, 2023

The ending for me is an absolute pay-off, which, of course, I will not give away. Jim Gaffigan, Rhea Seehorn, and Tony Shalhoub are some of these great actors that you really love seeing play, and play-off each other... I call it [the movie] a hidden gem.

| Original Score: 8.5/10 | Jul 24, 2023

At least West reaches for the stars where so many other filmmakers are content to punch the clock.

| Jul 5, 2023

By the time that West is ready to show his hand directly, most viewers will be so wrapped up in Linoleum that that details will scarcely matter.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 17, 2023

It's a thrilling, sometimes heavy, drama about love, identity, and individuality that takes you to the ever-expanding universe of us.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Apr 14, 2023

The first-rate production design, the music by Mark Headley and the cinematography by Ed Wu all contribute to the feeling of a surrealist adventure that toggles between satirical comedy and something darker and much heavier.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 10, 2023

Gaffigan... is a constantly strong centre in the two roles.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 10, 2023

This exquisitely constructed Midwest tale of a science teacher pushing 50 confronted by his brash doppelganger, is as simple as it is clever

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 6, 2023

West has made a number of sci-fi inclined shorts and two short features, but Linoleum could be considered a feature debut, were it not for the fact that it feels more like an over-extended short.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 30, 2023

A muddled tract about middle-age malaise... We tend to grant some license to arthouse films for trying stuff that’s unusual and different from mainstream fare - and bless them all - but this noble attempt simply fails to take off.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 30, 2023

… appears at first to be one kind of film, a surrealist comedy about middle-age, but turns out to be an earnest dramatic piece about how dreams are realised even if we think they are beyond our reach.

| Original Score: 17.5/20 | Mar 23, 2023

Mixing the seemingly sweet with the dyspeptically sour—albeit more in a Donnie Darko kinda way, minus the vague undercurrent of horror—is Colin West’s sophomore feature, an intriguingly offbeat seriocomedy on the edge of fantasy...

| Mar 15, 2023

[Linoleum] jettisons the ruminative self-seriousness a more prestige-inflected drama might opt for, instead preferring a snug, pleasantly offbeat vibe that’s equally nostalgic and sanguine.

| Mar 6, 2023

With his second feature, writer-director Colin West has made the type of movie that you want to encourage people to see, not only for how good it is, but so that you have someone to talk about it with, with no danger of spoiling its surprises.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 4, 2023

“Linoleum” may appeal to patient viewers who appreciate ambiguity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 3, 2023

A fantastic performance from Jim Gaffigan. I really like this streak he's on of playing unexpectedly dramatic roles.

| Mar 3, 2023

Colin West gives us a mid-town, mid-life crisis movie that aspires to the profundity of 2001: A Space Odyssey but like Cameron's rocket, it doesn't quite reach those cinematic heights.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2023

I, personally, found that the story gets too wrapped up in itself and takes some stumbles. But, it is an intelligent story that does not talk down to us, entertains and makes you think.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 1, 2023