The Unspeakable Act
Cinema Guild | Release Date: March 1, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 5 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
1
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Village VoiceScott FoundasFeb 26, 2013
Perverse, funny, and ultimately profound. Read full review
80
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldFeb 28, 2013
Mr. Sallitt lays down a customarily restrained mode of acting (the kind that somehow seems less flat and more natural in French cinema), but it’s in the service of a rare lucidity about feeling. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJoseph Jon LanthierFeb 26, 2013
Writer-director Dan Sallitt's fourth feature moves with confident boldness from the incestuous gauntlet its prologue impishly hurls down. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungFeb 26, 2013
There's more than enough going on here to compensate for the script's occasional tendency towards on-the-nose exposition of feelings, and evasive contrivances. Read full review
60
Time OutDavid FearFeb 26, 2013
You couldn’t accuse the cast members of being good actors, yet this young performer knows exactly how to express Jackie’s confusion, vulnerability, instability and longing without any sense of judgment; the film would simply not work without her, no matter how sensitively Sallitt handles such provocative, ick-producing bait. Read full review
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