With abrupt cuts in music, jumpy editing that includes needless insertions of old images and footage, and random fading to black, the film feels a bit all over the place at times. (weliveentertainment.com)
Both halves feature production designer Mark Friedberg's meticulous re-creations of bustling cityscapes — from the beautifully grimy multicultural wonderland of Ben's New York to an equally textured evocation of Rose's monochrome, pre-Depression urban utopia — and Haynes and editor Affonso Gonçalves shift between them with abrupt cuts and sound bridges that produce a textured, sensory experience of the city. (filmcomment.com)
Unlike Richard Serra or Joseph Beuys, they avoid rolled steel and abrupt cuts into the gallery. (haberarts.com)