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

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

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

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

Full Review | Jun 7, 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

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

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

First-time director Allen Mindel is too lackadaisical in pushing the story along. By the time the narrative picks up steam, we've lost ours.

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

It's Milwaukee, Minnesota that turns out to be, as Tuey might put it, mildly "retarded."

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 1, 2005

First-timer Allan Mindel nails the snowbound rhythms of upper Midwestern life and orchestrates a near perfect ending, a fade-to-white over an unlikely promised land.

| May 31, 2005

A self-consciously quirky American indie pic, Milwaukee, Minnesota could really get on your nerves if you're not in the mood.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 30, 2004