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Sara Stewart, New York Post: The dialogue is so vague, and the plot so minimal, it all feels like a rather pointless exercise. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: I could no more tell you what it's trying to say than I could successfully stow away on the first space shuttle to Saturn, although I promise you that trip would be half as long. Read more
John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: Icily beautiful story of loss-fueled floundering is long on mood and sense of place. Read more
Annlee Ellingson, Los Angeles Times: Questions mount and answers are slim, distracted by a score that veers from synth to symphonic. Read more
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: Ms. Sevigny is the unsteady center of a movie that uses awkward silences, cryptic dialogue and self-consciously arty images to signify emotional limbo. Read more
Keith Uhlich, Time Out: We're stuck watching two normally interesting performers moodily flail about, trying to lend weight to an enterprise that revels in tedious art-house opacity. Read more
Alan Scherstuhl, Village Voice: Gorgeous and haunting, inscrutable but rewarding of scrutiny, writer-director M. Blash's The Wait achieves the rare distinction of being warm and unsettling at the same time ... Read more