Watching the film now, it already feels like something of an artifact: soon, tales of infinite global connection and shared international traumas in the Babel and Crash vein would come to define the cinematic aughts... The film is exquisitely calculated to keep us at bay. It's undoubtedly a skilled, and in many ways elegantly crafted, portrait of loneliness, but it's predicated on a willful kind of loneliness, one that seems less laudable in the rear view mirror.
Michael Koresky
April 1, 2013