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Ty Burr, Boston Globe: The film is so recessive that at times it threatens to disappear into itself, but director Kari saves it with delicious images of absurdity and entrapment. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Droll, dry and delicate, it's the kind of humor that makes it hard to decide if Noi is a comic story with tragic elements or the other way around. Read more
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: Paced a bit too glacially for my taste, yet it's worth sitting through for its trick ending, a twist of events as ominous as the landscape. Read more
Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News: As a drama, Noi seems as cold as the icy land in which it takes place. But it still offers a glimpse into a rarely seen world, and more adventurous moviegoers will find it eye-opening. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: As many times as we may feel we've seen this story -- maybe not in Iceland, but somewhere -- Kari approaches the material with a sensibility closer to the deadpan grace of Aki Kaurismaki than the suburban melancholy of John Hughes. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: Like its hero ... it's just a little too uninterested in being liked -- and a little too devoted to being flagrantly, foolishly odd. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The laconic Lemarquis does a solid job carrying off Kari's dryly mordant wit, making this eccentric story well worth watching. Read more
Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: A memorably bleak Icelandic exercise graced by the arresting performance of Tomas Lemarquis in the title role. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: The title character of Dagur Kari's debut feature is an albino teenager who lives in a small town in a remote part of Iceland. Read more
G. Allen Johnson, San Francisco Chronicle: Who can resist a movie set in a town where the natural history museum, filled with stuffed polar bears and such, is 'the wildest place in town'? Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: A better-than- average tale of teenage angst that balances its tone between sorrow and buoyant good cheer. Read more
Dennis Lim, Village Voice: A lightly comic slacker drama that takes the desperation of teenage tedium seriously. Read more