Downtown: A Street Tale
Slowhand Cinema Releasing | Release Date: April 20, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The younger actors bring varying degrees of experience to bear on their roles, but all capture the desperation beneath their characters' tough fronts, while the NYC locations are suitably depressing. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
Clichéd though it may be, this movie was clearly made with love. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
As writer as well as star, Dedio expresses passionate concern for the lost young souls of Lower Manhattan but by and large doesn't define his characters strongly enough to involve the viewer in their fates very deeply. Read full review
38
Miami HeraldPeter Debruge
Amounts to little more than a downbeat soap opera as half a dozen squatters -- hustler, junkie, stripper, queer, fallen Madonna and skank, with a mentally challenged roomie thrown in for good measure -- try to hold their lives together in a grungy New York loft just days before Christmas. Think "Rent" without the music. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette Catsoulis
Rehashing characters and plots from the "Law & Order" playbook, the director, Rafal Zielinski, supplements his material with religious iconography and more gauzy close-ups than a Barbra Streisand marathon. Read full review
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