86
Metascore
10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlPatient, observational film demands you surrender to it, that you keep your phone in your pocket, which means that movie theaters now sometimes offer a more unmediated look at the world than modern life itself.
- 100The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenA small miracle of a film.
- 91The PlaylistDiana DrummThe PlaylistDiana DrummThe sincerity and earnestness of Stand Clear of the Closing Doors are brave and true.
- 90VarietyRonnie ScheibVarietyRonnie ScheibConsistently fascinating and suspenseful.
- 88Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenWe're simply presented a person in trouble, and we're allowed to recognize his problems as extreme embodiments of universal issues of terror, confusion, and loneliness.
- 88New York PostFarran Smith NehmeNew York PostFarran Smith NehmeThis is the sort of movie that gets called “hallucinatory,” but it is strongly grounded in the New York in which 99 percent of us live. Fleischner gets his uncanny effects simply by showing what this city looks like to a child who has a different filter.
- 83The A.V. ClubDavid EhrlichThe A.V. ClubDavid EhrlichEffectively portrays New York City as a cacophonous collision of disparate voices, sidestepping the nightmarish outcome of that child’s story in favor of a different, more enduringly visible disaster.
- 75RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzRogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzLike its hero, Stand Clear of the Closing Doors goes with the flow and has a chaotic and thrilling time but doesn't know where to go or what to do with itself.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAction takes a backseat to local color in well-acted drama.
- 70The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasThough it has the dramatic apparatus of fiction, the film unfolds with a documentary-like openness to the world around it.