Raiff deserves all the credit he's getting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 4, 2021

A funny, tender treat.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 2, 2021

These two make Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, from the Before movies, seem like Rhodes scholars, and a lot less fragile too.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 1, 2021

Life can be desperately embarrassing in your first year at university when you are trying out new identities and personalities. This film replicates that agonising discomfort.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2021

Raiff's film is a DIY marvel.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 30, 2020

Through cinematographer Rachel Klein's intimate lens that values long takes and close-ups, Raiff on the whole transposes a youthful world on to the screen, adorned with profound existential worries of early adulthood.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 16, 2020

It's a warming, energizing film, measured in its technical approach... and deeply compassionate toward its likable characters.

| Oct 16, 2020

There's real potential in this scrappy first feature.

| Oct 16, 2020

Even decades later, one can clearly remember the highs and lows, the small joys and the big heartaches, and "S-house" brings them home - whether you like it or not.

| Oct 15, 2020

Raiff deserves credit for an unexpectedly elliptical coda, but much of the chatter between the leads has the emo-tedium of dorm room blather.

| Oct 15, 2020

The movie is refreshingly honest about the stresses and depression that can come with being young, male, and unmoored.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 14, 2020

The film excels at capturing the emotional substance of what we think we remember about our pasts.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 12, 2020

It's profoundly romantic but never simplistic, and that's what makes it truly special.

| Apr 2, 2020

This story of a homesick college freshman, played affectingly by Raiff himself, doesn't break any new ground - it doesn't even try - but his film is still an appealing charmer...

| Mar 28, 2020

Well pitched and briefly suggesting a less intellectually ambitious kid brother to Before Sunrise, the film's only serious misstep is its name...

| Mar 25, 2020

Whenever "Shithouse" starts drifting towards a more generic energy, or gets the tiniest bit too plotty for its own good down the home stretch, Gelula is there to bring things back on course.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 13, 2020