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David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: Smart, funny, and visually gorgeous, with the intimacy of a relationship drama and the resonance of a city portrait. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: The movie's ideas float atop it like whipped cream on coffee, but the actors' chemistry makes for a pleasant, unassuming walk-and-talk. Read more
Ted Fry, Seattle Times: A hazy, nuanced and remarkably assured debut from filmmaker Barry Jenkins. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: Medicine for Melancholy reminds that much is possible with little. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: It's an unassuming little piffle that wafts away while you're watching it. Read more
Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Cenac is witty and Heggins has a wary stillness, but the movie itself seems too shy to let them really engage each other. Read more
V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Nothing momentous happens -- nor do we expect it to -- but it is fun watching the two 20-somethings playing off each other. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Mr. Jenkins and his co-leads, Mr. Cenac and Ms. Heggins, achieve stretches of buoyancy and brio in their search for a romantic epiphany that never comes. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The actors are effortlessly engaging. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: I'd describe it, in fact, as a film that doesn't quite work -- but the way it doesn't work is so distinctive and so interesting that it marks Jenkins as an exciting new face on the American indie scene. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Writer-director Barry Jenkins demonstrates a rare ability to communicate a state of mind through images. Read more
Dennis Harvey, Variety: A tasty slice of life, but one sliced thin enough to leave one feeling a tad undernourished. Read more
Ernest Hardy, Village Voice: Jenkins's dialogue is crisp and witty, sounding and flowing the way real people speak. But it's also shrewdly nuanced. Read more