Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2001

Thraves lets his story drag as if aimless drama will somehow reflect the aimlessness of his characters' lives. It doesn't; it simply bores.

Full Review | May 1, 2001

It does have something to say to those patient enough to stick with it.

| Apr 26, 2001

Has such a prosaic, straightforward approach, it's sublime.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2001

Yes, this is another English dramedy about the demands of friendship, but it's in a far more realist key than the posh, slick Hugh Grant films.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2001

One of the most aimless, hard-to-follow films I've seen in a long time.

| Apr 20, 2001

Invokes Jean Luc Godard and John Cassavetes as cinematic inspirations, then settles for freeze frames and other directorial tics.

| Original Score: C | Apr 20, 2001

It is relentlessly low-key, but not without a measure of charm and truth.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2001

Quirky, smart and subtle, The Low Down has that mint-fresh taste of discovery.

| Apr 20, 2001

The whole thing is shot in an irritating, self-conscious way.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2001

Thraves' first feature is so personal that he seems too close to it to make it very involving.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 20, 2001

Like an English episode of Friends with few laughs, no plot and little point.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2001

You remember the small scenes and telling moments; you feel you've been let inside someone else's life.

| Apr 20, 2001

In reality, you take the highs with the lows because there's no other option, but that mix makes for a fitful, fidgety movie experience.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2001

To say 'nothing happens' is to be blind to everyday life, during which we wage titanic struggles with our programming.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 20, 2001

Plays like a North London verite binge, with just enough charm and immediacy to carry it past the slack and meager parts.

Full Review | Apr 20, 2001

By the film's end [Gillen and Ashfield's characters] seem as complicated, and as incomplete, as your own friends.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 20, 2001

A slice of London slacker life that avoids condescension and employs an active style in the service of story and characters.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2001

Somehow both gratingly derivative and refreshingly unclassifiable.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2001

Thanks to Thraves' gritty style, and the characters' winning naturalism, you won't shout at the screen for all of them to just grow up.

Full Review | Apr 19, 2001