Quality of Life
Argot Pictures | Release Date: April 6, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
4
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleJane Ganhal
This is a small -- if rough -- gem of a film. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. Musetto
Kev Robertson's gritty camerawork and a musical soundtrack mixing hip-hop, punk and electronica add to the ambience of this impressive shoestring-budget indie. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyPaul Malcolm
It's Garrison and Burnam who hold the film's center, however, with a natural magnetism. Newcomers both, they take the same clean approach to their roles that their characters bring to their tags. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
While Burnam and Garrison imbue their characters with authentic-feeling frustration and anger, they never succeed in making them especially interesting; it's hard to care in any serious way what becomes of either. Read full review
60
VarietyEddie Cockrell
Picture's cliched underlying story of restless youth plays as too naive for an older audience and too provocative for teens. Read full review
60
Village VoiceJoshua Land
Establishes a strong sense of milieu in these street scenes, and while the movie's not without its flaws--much of the dialogue is colorless and Lisa seems a bit too together to be hanging out with Curtis--it's never less than credible. Read full review
60
The New York TimesNathan Lee
A minor movie, modestly made, that develops to a counterculture beat but ends with a status quo conundrum: Is selling out the new keeping it real? Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesMark Olsen
The ending, which unnecessarily veers toward lumpy, overwrought melodrama, undoes the scrappy elegance the film previously displays in fits and starts. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPhil Hall
With a clumsy hip-hop score permeating every free inch of the soundtrack and ugly 16mm cinematography that would never be allowed out of Film School 101, the audio-visual experience is a wreck. The quality of Quality of Life is non-existent. Read full review
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