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

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

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

Kari may eventually go far, but for now he's one of the less interesting inhabitants of international art cinema's disaffected-youth ghetto.

Full Review | Apr 30, 2004

As a drama, Nòi seems as cold as the icy land in which it takes place. But it still offers a glimpse into a rarely seen world, and more adventurous moviegoers will find it eye-opening.

| Original Score: B- | Apr 29, 2004

A memorably bleak Icelandic exercise graced by the arresting performance of Tómas Lemarquis in the title role.

| Apr 29, 2004

The film is so recessive that at times it threatens to disappear into itself, but director Kari saves it with delicious images of absurdity and entrapment.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 23, 2004

Droll, dry and delicate, it's the kind of humor that makes it hard to decide if Noi is a comic story with tragic elements or the other way around.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 8, 2004

The laconic Lemarquis does a solid job carrying off Kári's dryly mordant wit, making this eccentric story well worth watching.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2004

Kari successfully meshes comedy, ennui and tragedy, much in the manner of Jim Jarmusch and Finnish auteur Aki Kaurismaki.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 19, 2004

The title character of Dagur Kari's debut feature is an albino teenager who lives in a small town in a remote part of Iceland.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 18, 2004

Teen angst, Icelandic style, rendered with a slyly humorous.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 18, 2004

Paced a bit too glacially for my taste, yet it's worth sitting through for its trick ending, a twist of events as ominous as the landscape.

| Original Score: B | Mar 17, 2004

A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously.

Full Review | Mar 16, 2004

A playfully quirky and, ultimately, unexpectedly affecting portrait of a 17-year-old slacker.

Full Review | Mar 3, 2004

Has the deadpan, melancholic tone that brings to mind the poker-faced entertainment of Finland's Aki Kaurismäki.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2003