"SENSATIONAL. EDIE FALCO IS A JOY. MENDELSOHN HAS A BORN FILMMAKER'S GIFT. JUDY BERLIN HAD ME FROM HELLO."
-PETER TRAVERS / ROLLING STONE                                               

"EXTRAORDINARY. JUDY BERLIN IS A COMEDY OF THE MOST DELICATELY BALANCED PERFECTION. NO ONE ACTOR CAN BE SINGLED OUT FROM THIS DAZZLING ENSEMBLE.
-KEVIN THOMAS / L. A. TIMES                                                                

"ERIC MENDELSON'S EVOCATIVELY EERIE MEDITATION ON MODERN SUBURBIA...A FUSION OF SCIENCE FICTION AND CHEKOVIAN MELANCHOLY...'JUDY BERLIN' IS THE RARE MOVIE IN WHICH THE PAUSES, SILENCES AND THINGS THAT REMAIN UNSAID BY THE CHARACTERS ARE AS ELOQUENT AS ANYTHING THAT COMES  OUT OF THEIR MOUTHS."
-THE NEW YORK TIMES

"JUDY BERLIN IS HAUNTING AND HOPEFUL. I LOVE IT."
-ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY


"A UNIFIED POETIC VISION...MENDELSOHN IS POSSIBLY A MAJOR TALENT.. OF ALL THE YOUNG DIRECTORS WHOSE WORK I SAW (AT SUNDANCE), HE HAS THE GREATEST CHANCE OF ATTAINING THE STATURE OF ROBERT ALTMAN AND ERROL MORRIS."
-DAVID DENBY / THE NEW YORKER

"A MATURE AND SATISFYING MOVIE, ETCHED WITH SENSITVITY AND WIT."
-GRAHAM FULLER / FILM.COM

"*** AN INDIE JEWEL THAT INTRODUCES (DIRECTOR) ERIC MENDELSOHN AS A MAJOR NEW TALENT."
-JAMI BERNARD / THE NEW YORK DAILY NEWS


"FROM ITS STRIKING OPENING MONTAGE 'JUDY BERLIN' ESTABLISHES A PRECISE, CONTROLLED VISUAL STYLE.  THIS MELANCHOLY, DISCREET WORK SHIES AWAY FROM BIG EMOTIONAL PAYOFFS AND PROFOUND REALIZATIONS AND ACHIEVES A DISTINCTIVE, ELUSIVE TONE AIDED BY A FINE ENSEMBLE AND CRISP, ELEGANT BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY."
-GAVIN SMITH / FILM COMMENT

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- JAY CARR / THE BOSTON GLOBE

"CHARMING AND FUNNY. JUDY BERLIN IS SOMETHING TO GET EXCITED ABOUT."
-THE WASHINGTON POST


"***1/2...  A CHARMER...A CROWD PLEASER... RADICAL IN ITS REJECTION OF SARCASM."
-THELMA ADAMS / THE NY POST


"***1/2.  REMARKABLE - FASCINATING, MOODY AND DRYLY FUNNY."
-JOHN ANDERSON / NEWSDAY


"FILLED WITH AN IRONIC SENSE OF HUMOR AND A POETIC FEELING FOR LIFE'S LITTLE MOMENTS."
 
-KENNETH TURAN / LA TIMES

"JUDY BERLIN IS A TRUE ORIGINAL AND A WELCOME SIGN THAT THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FILM MOVEMENT REMAINS ALIVE AND FLOURISHING."
-DAVID STERRITT / CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

"THE FINEST INDIE FILM SINCE "FLIRTING WITH DISASTER" - DIRECTOR ERIC MENDELSOHN MAKES LONG ISLAND LOOK LIKE PARIS."
-DETAILS MAGAZINE

 

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