Alle Anderen 2009

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Everyone Else unloads a fusillade of truth bombs about those painfully specific moments when communication breaks down and couples start talking past each other. It isn't pretty to witness, but the pain of it smarts. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's about private, emotional phenomena: the tiny tremors and imperceptible shifts that bring a couple closer together or drive them apart, almost without their noticing. Read more

Amy Nicholson, Boxoffice Magazine: It's an unsparing, verite look at the damage people do when they're only focused on the damage being done to them. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: Resolutely odd, near static at times and yet strangely effective, Everyone Else goes nowhere in particular, but then that's the point. Read more

Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: A film that unsettles as often as it seduces, though it does very well with both. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: The well-acted, pleasantly lensed drama doesn't recall Hollywood's generic approach to fragile couples, and that's just fine with me. Read more

Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: This is a film that will surely try the patience of some, but there's wisdom here: jagged shards of wisdom, at the very least. Read more

Walter V. Addiego, San Francisco Chronicle: It's an impressive achievement: The film reveals things about each person's inner world, and how it looks to the other, without making us feel as if we're lost in a house of mirrors. Read more

Rob Nelson, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Like Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence, Ade's film is as unpredictable and ambiguous as it is raw. Read more

Keith Uhlich, Time Out: Everyone Else's power comes from the accrual of seemingly disparate incidents; a multifaceted portrait of the duo (and a larger examination of the ins and outs of any relationship) emerges amid all the sex, fighting, affection and insults. Read more

J. Hoberman, Village Voice: More fascinating than enjoyable. Placing a youngish, newly formed couple under relentless observation, Ade's two-hour squirmathon gets a bit more intimate on the subject of intimacy than the viewer might wish. Read more

Dan Kois, Washington Post: All that's certain is that we're getting to know these two characters exceptionally well and that their tics and flaws are as recognizable as our own. Read more