The Moment
Dada Films | Release Date: June 6, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
22
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
2
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
70
Village VoiceSam WeisbergJun 3, 2014
What's fresh is Weinstock's interweaving of flashbacks, slightly altered versions of flashbacks, and flashbacks within flashbacks, so that viewers must work as hard as Lee to determine past from present. Read full review
40
VarietyRonnie ScheibJun 5, 2014
The film continually resists coherence or synthesis, with puzzles left unresolved amid multiplying possibilities and highly repetitive flashbacks, yielding a mystery that wearies rather than intrigues. Read full review
40
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergJun 5, 2014
Disorientation is a double-edged sword, especially when the ostensible reorientation is as unsatisfying as it is here. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 19, 2014
The Moment is a psychological thriller more muddled than the mind and the maze it is caught up in. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedJun 4, 2014
The Moment is another in a long string of thrill-free psychological “thrillers” that fail from start to finish. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanJun 5, 2014
The story itself is fairly straightforward, but lands with a thud. Read full review
0
The DissolveDavid EhrlichJun 3, 2014
The Moment is a stilted, asinine Hitchcockian exercise that ultimately serves as little more—and often considerably less—than a needless reminder of how difficult it is to execute this kind of material. Read full review
0
Slant MagazineDiego SemereneJun 2, 2014
The film is a hybrid of a Lifetime movie focused on a "strong woman," a run-of-the-mill murder mystery, and a yogurt commercial from hell. Read full review
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