The plot is telegraphed so early on that the mystery starts dissolving, and all that is left is for the film to meander towards its ultimately unsatisfying Hollywood ending.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 23, 2019

Contains all the elements of a charmingly offbeat independent film, but somehow those elements never quite gel.

| Mar 1, 2007

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2006

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Memorable enough to warrant another shot at director. This film ends in a way that proves Mindel doesn't rely on cliches to make a statement.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 9, 2005

Everyone seems to be playing someone else in Allan Mindel's full-of-potential, slight-of-script Milwaukee, Minnesota.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 8, 2005

A weird but tasty slice of Midwestern noir.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 12, 2005

Most of its cast makes strong impressions, but the plot and motivation don't quite jell, resulting in a minor item that shows its star Troy Garity to good advantage.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 4, 2005

More predictable than its makers seem aware, its emotional hooks much too dull to pull us in.

Full Review | Aug 4, 2005

Two miscast actors provide all the annoyance the public can take.

| Original Score: C+ | Jun 18, 2005

A strange, compelling film, with Mr. Garity as a likeable, winning centerpiece.

Full Review | Jun 7, 2005

Milwaukee, Minnesota is familiar but manages to be unique in flourishes that come when you least expect them.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 5, 2005

An odd movie that wears its idiosyncrasies poorly.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 4, 2005

From the outset, the movie bumbles into genre territory inhabited by superior specimens

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 3, 2005

Allan Mindel is too taken with a Midwestern strain of weirdos who flounder in ramshackle houses, no-tell hotels and depressing juke joints.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 3, 2005

Allan Mindel's directing debut gives off the smug air of hipsters at play, making it hard to care what happens to any of its lost souls and inept opportunists.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jun 3, 2005

Solid acting by a cast headed by Troy Garity -- and striking cinematography by Bernd Heinl -- helps redeem Allan Mindel's never-quite-believable crime drama Milwaukee, Minnesota.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 3, 2005

Why do filmmakers persist in believing that we want to watch actors pretend to be mentally challenged?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 3, 2005

The busyness of the story, filled with conventional crime-plot scams and devices, only further exposes the narrative's thinness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 2, 2005

It's satisfied to be a series of monkeyshines in which Albert tries to stay one step ahead of the opportunists -- a task certainly easy enough for the audience.

| Jun 2, 2005