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A black as tar comedy charting the dissolution of a commune for sober living in 90's suburban New Jersey.
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| RogerEbert.comNick AllenAn incredibly refined emotional experience, the splattered emotions on its dirty canvas nonetheless the product of a specific, deeply felt directorial vision. |
| The New YorkerRichard Brody[Silver's] densely textured images have many planes of action, which he parses with pans and zooms, revealing the volatile bonds of a group on the verge of combustion as well as the howling horrors of unremitting solitude. |
| Village VoiceMelissa AndersonNever a banal depiction of dysfunctional group dynamics, Stinking Heaven, which was shaped, as in Silver's previous work, largely through improvisation, remains consistently absorbing. |
| Slant MagazineCarson LundAs in Nathan Silver's previous work, what could have been a rote retread of Pasolini's Teorema blossoms into a study of factional identity and power dynamics. |
| VarietyGuy LodgeWhether scenes tilt toward very mordant farce or gut-stabbing trauma, there’s a compelling sense — crafted or otherwise — that the actors are driving the tone from scene to scene, with Silver and his incisive editor Stephen Gurewitz determining the emotional transitions between them. |
| The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe brisk clip and dashes of dark humor ward off actual despair, but the length poses challenges for some of the heavy lifting of character growth. |
| The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloLike many of Joe Swanberg’s recent efforts, Stinking Heaven plays like a potentially strong idea for a movie that never quite takes shape, which is the problem with “writing” a movie while the camera rolls. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckFor every emotionally resonant scene, there's another that seems to drag on pointlessly, although the filmmaker once again displays a talent for delineating the emotional tensions that develop when disparate characters are thrown together. |
| Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenWhile the early going might bring to mind the Dogme 95 school of stripped-down filmmaking...the result, with its collective of uniformly unsympathetic characters, ultimately overdoses on all the unscripted bad vibes. |