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 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

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

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

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

| Mar 3, 2023

A minor-key domestic drama gradually transformed into something grander by its science-fiction elements.

| Feb 24, 2023

Jim Gaffigan’s compelling lead performance anchors Colin West’s free-wheeling indie without impeding its flights of fantasy.

| Feb 24, 2023

The mixture of forms isn’t quite successful, but Linoleum serves as an impressive calling card for its writer-director, Colin West, a relative newcomer.

| Feb 24, 2023

So determinedly coy in its early scenes that it risks losing the audience before the midway point. It’s well worth sticking around, though, as this sci-fi-flavored family drama more than repays our patience.

| Feb 23, 2023

It turns out to be a grander tapestry about the way in which—per Cameron himself—the universe, and every life, is akin to an inimitable fingerprint.

| Feb 23, 2023

All but impossible to review with any specificity, because so much of its achievement lies in its surpriseshow it seems to be doing one thing while slyly doing another, without deception, and then revealing its ultimate intentions with grace and style.

| Original Score: A | Mar 19, 2022

A surprising and poignant reflection on what it means to live a fulfilling life, the memories and evocations of which will swell within you long after they’ve passed.

| Mar 16, 2022

A film with so many good ideas, especially in its final ten minutes, but without the clear vision to coalesce them into something that works from beginning to end.

| Mar 15, 2022

Thoughtful performances and earnest (if especially subtle) writing keep the film compelling enough until its final minutes, which are even more startling in their heart-wrenching effectiveness than in their mind-bending twists.

| Mar 14, 2022

Linoleum is an otherworldly tragedy about endings and beginnings, and the existential rot whose origins feel unknown.

| Original Score: B | Mar 13, 2022