Xenia 2014

Critics score:
85 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Guy Lodge, Variety: Brashly uneven and wildly overlong, this comedy of brotherly love and outsider acceptance nonetheless boasts a spirited, audience-pleasing core. Read more

Boyd van Hoeij, Hollywood Reporter: Though the story's finally too predictable and a little too thin to captivate for the film's entire two-hours-plus running time, the characters, their chemistry and their plight are compelling Read more

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times: Koutras admirably resists easy wish fulfillment by making the brothers' journey more important than their destination, but the scenario he presents inexplicably turns out to be fantasy. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: You come away from "Xenia" feeling a bit more alive and ready to throw caution to the wind. Read more

Michael Nordine, Village Voice: Pleasingly elliptical in the way it confronts Greece's concurrent crises of economic decline and ascendant militancy. Read more