Toronto. Frontiere(s).

"Yes, Xavier Gens is treading very familiar ground with Frontiere(s), his debut film, and yes, just about all of this has been done before, but by god there's just so much of it here and all of it executed (pun intended) so well that the film defies any horror fans to not have a good time with it," writes Todd Brown at Twitch.

"The characters are exhaustingly unlikable from minute one and the handheld camera work is enough to make any mumblecore filmmaker cringe," writes Michael Lerman at indieWIRE. "Frontier(s) is a violent jolt to the senses, not because of its unpolished grotesque imagery which saves the film in the campy final act that plays like the dying breath of a good premise, but because of its anti-human disconnect."

"Plot-wise, it's all very familiar and frequently quite predictable - but boring? Absolutely not," declares Scott Weinberg at Cinematical.

"To say that this French thriller is derivative would be a compliment," writes Mike White.

Posted by dwhudson at September 23, 2007 3:10 PM