Collapsing into a series of depressed vignettes paced and posed like a Paul Thomas Anderson film scored by Coldplay and Simon & Garfunkel, Garden State has a pleasing slickness about it while collecting debts, too, to Wes Anderson and Doug Liman. (filmfreakcentral.net)
They vibrate with slickness and success. (artlyst.com)
There's less slickness in a car chase scene, however, a messy moment of CGI and studio work — this sequence should have at least rolled over and played full phony, instead of looking like an unnatural piece of botched reality. (thescorecardreview.com)