A short, simple film that nails its aesthetic and provides a compelling tale of how someone psychologically unwell can confuse obsession for love.

| Oct 1, 2020

Essentially this is Fatal Attraction with the gender perspective reversed, which may constitute some sort of progress but hardly obviates the castration anxiety at the root of the story.

| Mar 25, 2020

The film bestows us the opportunity for dialogue, as the best of cinema and many titles often do.

| Feb 27, 2020

A psychedelic 70s exploitation look and feel gives Thirst Street a dreamy Euro-Trash quality.

| Original Score: B+ | Nov 2, 2018

So no, it's not a sly, dark, romantic deadpan comedy after all. It's dark all right - but it looks more like a train than a light at the end of the tunnel.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Dec 1, 2017

Few filmmakers are capable of imagining anything worse than supernatural horror or overly conventional heartbreak and Silver ends up creating something in between those worlds.

| Nov 21, 2017

Somehow, her acting combines with cinematography straight from an artsy 1970s porno and a soundtrack of woozy love songs to create an expressionist portrait of overwhelming loneliness.

| Nov 21, 2017

Thirst Street is a corrective to the scores of movies - American and otherwise - that portray unrequited romantic obsession as something other than what it really is: a slippery slope that's all but guaranteed to end with someone getting hurt.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 20, 2017

Normally, I'm eager for a story about a woman humiliating herself for love, but the tone of this fanciful film at times struck me as all wrong.

| Oct 6, 2017

Thirst Street deserves your attention thanks to its vividly assured visuals.

| Oct 4, 2017

Visually arresting with vibrant, expressive colors and a surreal atmosphere, Thirst Street resembles those French Emmanuelle skin flicks you weren't supposed to watch.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2017

There's not much in the way of bruising insight into the makeup of a deteriorating personality, but for a compact spin through well-trod fields of lustful, sad-mad blindness, "Thirst Street" has its share of disreputably perverse pleasures.

| Sep 28, 2017

Thirst Street remains baffling and confused, unworthy of Burdge's performance.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Sep 22, 2017

Lindsay Burdge's intrepid performance as a woman unable to let go of a one-night stand galvanizes Nathan Silver's sharply stylized character study.

| Sep 21, 2017

Burdge holds the picture together, playing a character who walks a fine line between being sympathetically damaged and terrifyingly loony.

| Original Score: B+ | Sep 20, 2017

The result is a slow-motion car crash that you intimately experience from both in and outside the car. There's just enough distance to allow for wisdom but not enough so as not to feel the impact.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Sep 20, 2017

Vivid and mordant, Thirst Street imperfectly defines its lead, but makes her journey distinct.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 20, 2017

Though both Ms. Burdge and Mr. Bonnard offer vulnerably world-weary performances, Mr. Silver has made a movie about obsession that never delves deeper than infatuation.

| Sep 19, 2017

It's one of those movies that starts uncomfortably close to a character and then drills down deeper, and star Lindsay Burdge is more than up to the challenge, crafting a performance that's all of a piece with the film.

| May 4, 2017

It's a testament to Nathan Silver's keen sense of observation that we don't want the film to turn decisively into thriller terrain.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 25, 2017