Test 2013

David Ehrlich, AV Club: Test is most effective when it prioritizes mood over psychological melodrama (which is often), but Johnson's approach is torn between Albert Camus and Brian De Palma. Read more

Stephen Farber, Hollywood Reporter: The film is an appealing variation on a popular genre, and if it's a little too low-key to attract a mainstream audience, it marks a promising step forward for the writer-director, Chris Mason Johnson. Read more

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times: "Test" is woefully inadequate and unnecessary when compared with "Parting Glances" (1986) and "Longtime Companion" (1989). Read more

Tomas Hachard, NPR: If Test can portray a dark time with an underlying sense of hope for the future, it's because almost thirty years later, looking back at 1985, it has no ambivalence about the progress that's occurred since. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: Here is San Francisco as it was in its bohemian twilight, on the eve of catastrophe. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: This is a creative, ambitious project that delivers, thanks in no small part to a director who knows about dance - and to a cast that can both dance and act. Read more

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice: Six years after his debut feature, The New Twenty, writer-director Chris Mason Johnson returns with a film that's less polished but braver. Read more