| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 27, 2003

A low-budget wonder.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2003

A remarkably assured feature debut, Eric Eason's raw, intimate movie deftly captures the kinetic energy of its Washington Heights setting.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2003

What Manito delivers that its cable 온라인카지노추천 cousins rarely seem interested in exploring are the tiniest details of the real urban 'hood where its stories take place.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2003

[Eason] has a quick-moving, incisive eye that captures little details of gesture and dcor ... and also an ear finely tuned to the nuances of talk.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 13, 2003

Eason has crafted a small, independent film that has an outsized impact.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2003

Where do the actors come from, who can walk into their first picture and act with such effortless effect?

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 13, 2003

A small film with a big impact.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2003

Eason has made a film about family tragedy that sings along on an electrical pulse of energetic editing, convincing naturalism and a confident sense of turf.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 12, 2003

Flaunts all of its potential liabilities -- microscopic budget, first-time director, unknown cast, downbeat story -- and, one by one, transforms them into soaring triumphs.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2003

Captures in unadorned style the energy and emotions binding a Dominican family in Manhattan's Washington Heights section.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 12, 2003

An unusually impassioned indie.

| Jun 10, 2003

It's a vibrant, embracing film of people on the fringe of mainstream America.

Full Review | Aug 21, 2002

Eason captures with graphic realism the male rivalry, manic tensions, and social aspirations of a New York ethnic enclave.

| Apr 25, 2002