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Submitted by Marya Murphy on Sun, 04/12/2009 - 8:33pm.
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Rodney Perkins of Austin's Fantastic Fest offers up a new review of CANARY on Twitch.

"Alejandro Adams’ film CANARY is the filmed equivalent of an experimental novel. It is dense, complex and spirals off into numerous directions. It is also a small-budget film that successfully blends thought provoking, as opposed to preachy, social commentary with novel forms of visual story telling."

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"This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues."
-- Dennis Harvey, Variety


"Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams's slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings--and deserves them."
-- Jim Ridley, Village Voice


"Wildly ambitious...an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread."
-- Karina Longworth, Spout


"[CANARY is] terrific...very creepy and uncanny. It's quite an achievement."
-- Phillip Lopate


"Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel."
-- Richard von Busack, Metro


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