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In Search of a Midnight Kiss
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It has the problems that afflict many an indie dramedy, but it also captures a certain vibe that's winning and affecting.
J. Robert Parks
Daily Plastic
Profane, hilarious and ultimately heartbreaking, Alex Holdridge's black-and-white feature In Search of a Midnight Kiss has a gutter purity that makes you root for it all the way and forgive its patches of ultra-indie awkwardness.
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
but maybe
Midnight Kiss is too standard in its bittersweet conception and palpable in its striving for any real swoon to sneak in. And, as its title suggests, it has an agenda, which makes for schematic viewing as it attempts to hit its major marks before the clock strikes twelve.
Kristi Mitsuda
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who's the
star?
Did Los Angeles sign with a new agent? Heretofore best known for its performances as urban jungle, moneyed playground, and future dystopia, Angel City gets a chance to flex its acting muscles in writer-director Alex Holdridge's enjoyably retro romantic comedy, where it stars as the sort of blissful black-and-white lovers' paradise usually played by New York, London, or Paris.
Scott Foundas
Village Voice
As long as it sticks to being a visually stunning love letter to the much-maligned city... I can totally get on board with it. It's when the actors open their mouths that I start to have a problem.
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog
...a neat distillation of what we mean by American independent cinema: the compulsion to proceed by nudges and sidelong glances, to build a character through the accumulation of quirks, and to gesture toward the deep end of human behavior and then dart quickly away.
Anthony Lane
The New Yorker
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