Above and Below

At nearly two hours, the film might strike some as overlong, and yet the edit finds so many masterful connections en route to its exhilarating climax that it’s easy to fall under the pic’s hypnotic spell.

The film is a wonder of desert skies, slick tunnels, bumptious fence- and wall-climbing, and occasional staged reveries.

The documentary lingers on silences and reveals its subjects only through moments of quotidian behavior.

Mr. Steiner’s tightly interconnected documentary, with transporting shots, visits people on the margins in the United States.

An intriguing and absorbing delve into almost alien parts of the United States.

Many of the cuts and interplay between subjects seem like filler rather than commentary; the lightshows of LEDs and flashlights dancing off the dank walls of sewers reveal no more than a flashy visual sensibility.