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Jul 8, 2015
90
The universal theme of personal principle vs. human necessity gets a workout in languid but inexorably powerful morality play, Runoff.
Jun 26, 2015
88
I don't think Kimberly Levin's debut feature Runoff entirely works as a story or a statement. But as an experience, it's amazing — so unlike most other recent American independent films in its style and mood.
Jun 22, 2015
75
This emotionally affecting film never loses sight of the ethical complexity of forsaking a community in the name of an individual.
Jun 25, 2015
75
Like its rural setting, Runoff is slow, deliberate, and concerned with practical things.
Jun 23, 2015
70
Kimberly Levin's Runoff deals with an old-as-time moral quandary — how far will you go to protect your family? — but the movie achieves an understated resonance through Levin's emotionally sensitive compositions and her clued-in portrayal of life in a middle-American farming community.
Jul 8, 2015
67
Edited by writer-director Levin, Runoff is the kind of film that finds power and pleasure in silence; many of its best scenes come in careful, long, quiet scenes of revelation or desperation.
Jun 25, 2015
60
The movie’s extreme compression is its biggest failing. The business end is so minimally sketched, you are left wanting to know a lot more.
Jul 8, 2015
50
The threats faced in Runoff feel generic: predatory corporations, merciless banks, environmental contamination and encroaching industrialization just seem like overly familiar themes, lacking sustained suspense.
Jul 23, 2015
40
The low energy pace and performances strive for naturalism but just don't achieve compelling tension or suspense.
