| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

Begins as a standard quirky, indie coming-of-age film, but slowly -- like melting ice -- turns into something more profound and genuinely touching.

| May 26, 2006

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 6, 2005

Satisfaisant, mais on commence à connaitre la chanson un peu trop par cur.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Sep 7, 2005

Left me too much in the cold to warm up to it.

| Original Score: B- | May 25, 2005

Here is an absurd black comedy that is not afraid to give us some insight into the often dark dealings of the teenage psyche.

| Mar 7, 2005

Holds the attention with imaginative detail and a veneer of deadpan humor, like thin ice over a sea of despair

Full Review | Jan 12, 2005

A quirky, amusing little film.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 10, 2004

Kári's deadpan humor instills the film's emptiness with a warm glow.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 7, 2004

Its unusual ambiance and quirky turns make it a peculiarly affecting addition to the coming-of-age genre.

| Original Score: B | May 23, 2004

The director is constantly playing off the bleakness -- as well as the beauty -- of the Icelandic surroundings.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 21, 2004

After spending most of an hour being made to care about how Nói will solve his problems, our emotional investment evaporates like dot-com stock.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | May 21, 2004

If you see only one quirky coming-of-age movie set on a remote Icelandic fiord this year, make it Noi.

Full Review | May 21, 2004

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 20, 2004

Proceeds at a, no pun intended, glacial pace ... but the film is possessed of something more important: a bone-weary honesty at the travails of being young, different, and stuck somewhere you don't want to be.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 9, 2004

Who can resist a movie set in a town where the natural history museum, filled with stuffed polar bears and such, is 'the wildest place in town'?

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2004

Meditation on loneliness and isolation not highly entertaining but offers food for thought

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2004

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 5, 2004

Kári captures the contradictory sense of claustrophobia and emptiness that is both real and metaphoric. And Lemarquis is very watchable, as is Hansdóttir as Iris.

| May 5, 2004

Unfortunately, we're not given much reason to care about this mopey bore, and I found my mind wandering as it did in a previous Icelandic film, Reykjavik 101.

| May 5, 2004