A thoroughly original accomplishment of a high artistic order, Northfork features flawless, spare production design by Ichelle Spitzig and the Polish brothers' father, Del, and cinematographer M. David Mullen's striking images slide effortlessly into Dalí-like Surrealism.Read Full Review »
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CHICAGO SUN-TIMES: Roger Ebert
There has never been a movie quite like Northfork… The movie is visionary and elegiac, more a fable than a story, and frame by frame, it looks like a portfolio of spaces so wide, so open, that men must wonder if they have a role beneath such indifferent skies.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Dana Stevens
There is nothing quite like this movie, and I'm not altogether sure there is much more to it than its lovely peculiarity. But at a moment when so many films strive to be obvious and interchangeable as possible, it is gratifying to find one that is puzzling, subtle and handmade.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Ann Hornaday
Isn't everyone's cup of tea -- as the Polishes admit in a clever bit of critical preemption -- but it possesses an undeniable, haunting grandeur.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
This is very much the bargain that Northfork offers an audience: Buy into the brothers' elegiac meditation on angels, Eden, and the death of American innocence or sit back and scoff at it as so much David Lynch lite.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Just about gets us off the ground on its dreamy, feathery angel wings; it just doesn't have the strength or the stamina to keep us aloft.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: Laura Sinagra
Northfork's overall ponderousness prevents it from becoming a transcendent fictive poem on the violent domestication of the West.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
The cinematic equivalent of an elaborate and poetically constructed non sequitur.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Moody and atmospheric -- a study in tone over plot and pacing over characterization. Unfortunately, in devoting all of their efforts towards the film's look and feel, co-creators Mark and Michael Polish have crafted a motion picture that is static, occasionally opaque, and, worst of all, boring.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
It's just too lost in its own presumed self-enchantment.Read Full Review »
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