The Wait
Monterey Media | Release Date: January 31, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally unfavorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
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1
Mixed:
4
Negative:
5
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70
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJan 28, 2014
The pained, textured performances of Sevigny and Malone enrich their scenes, but when it ranges away from its leads, The Wait can seem like an anthology of moments rather than a narrative whole, although those moments do accumulate into a mood of chilly, gently surreal isolation. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 30, 2014
An art film whose seductive qualities don't entirely erase the suspicion that its weirder elements might be empty affectation. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJan 9, 2014
The payoff isn’t nearly as interesting as the cryptic set-up and disquieting performances and scenes that precede it in The Wait. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonJan 30, 2014
Writer-director M. Blash's sophomore film is ethereal and trippy, told less in scenes than in oblique snatches, not unlike the experience of emotional paralysis. This approach grows wearying. Read full review
40
The DissolveMike D'AngeloJan 29, 2014
While Blash intends The Wait to be a study in stasis, depicting emotional paralysis in various forms, the thin, amorphous nature of both this film and Lying suggest that he simply doesn’t have much to offer apart from uncontextualized moodiness. Read full review
38
New York PostSara StewartJan 30, 2014
The dialogue is so vague, and the plot so minimal, it all feels like a rather pointless exercise. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJan 26, 2014
By the end, audiences will most likely feel as if they've been locked out of the drama that's presumably unfolding right in front of them. Read full review
30
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 30, 2014
It’s all just so much empty eye candy. Read full review
20
Time OutKeith UhlichJan 28, 2014
Probably best to dissuade the so-bad-it’s-good crowd: There’s nothing here to laugh at with the communal glee of a "Rocky Horror" or "The Room"; only a spectacularly bad composite shot of a fire-fighting plane induces any real giggles. Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedJan 29, 2014
Ms. Sevigny is not called “the queen of the weirdo Bs” for nothing. (In fairness, she was a weekly television addiction as one of the polygamous Mormon wives on the hit TV series Big Love.) But not since she performed real-time fellatio on scruffy Vincent Gallo in the forgettable 2003 bomb "The Brown Bunny" has she stooped this low. Read full review
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