49
Metascore
5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfA thick sheen of luscious lens flares and Terrence Malick–like poetic lulls feel like icing on an undercooked mud pie—Bedford’s script deserves a stronger engagement with its characters’ desperation. Instead they collide in a clichéd ending that feels padded.
- 60Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinCompelling as Zylka and Keough may be — and we're definitely rooting for their well-etched characters — Bedford too often plies a kind of woeful wooziness here when a more propulsive approach is in order.
- 50The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezLow on ideas and high on atmosphere, Dixieland is a promising debut, but it likely won’t find you overwhelmingly writing back home about it.
- 50The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThis is well-worn territory, and though the two leads are very good, the romance that is supposed to drive the story isn’t particularly well delineated.
- 30Village VoiceChris PackhamVillage VoiceChris PackhamWriter-director Hank Bedford delivers some tactile, human details.... But the film is slow and often agonizingly predictable.