Name : Leslie Felperin / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
The use of sign language, deafness and silence itself adds several heady new ingredients to the base material, alchemically creating something rich, strange and very original.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
It's a staggering film, but not a brilliant one - a superior version would have played more with the gulf between our senses and theirs.

Name : Farran Smith Nehme / Alias : New York Post
Story-wise, "The Tribe" is yet another art-film wallow in cruelty, not nearly as unique as its looks and its world.

Name : Dave Calhoun / Alias : Time Out
Beyond the film-stealing, hypnotic use of sign-language, what we get is a bleak vision of a society gone to pot.

Name : Bob Mondello / Alias : NPR
By the end, The Tribe has revealed itself as so original, and so chilling, it's likely to leave you speechless.

Name : Anthony Lane / Alias : New Yorker
So vigorous are those signs, and so unmistakably sore is the inflammation of feeling behind them, that, far from being shut out, we are pulled all too fiercely into the drama's heart.

Name : Bilge Ebiri / Alias : New York Magazine/Vulture
It toys with our pity, then it toys with our outrage, then it toys with our identification. Before we know it, we've been sucked into its wicked, all-too-human drama.

Name : Wesley Morris / Alias : Grantland
An utter astonishment.

Name : A.O. Scott / Alias : New York Times
It's something of a formal tour de force, a triumphant overcoming of self-imposed cinematic challenges.

Name : Joe McGovern / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
As an amazing piece of pure cinema, The Tribe needs to be experienced. And talked about.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
Actions, emotions and desperate impulses speak far louder than words in The Tribe, a formally audacious coup de cinema that marks a stunning writing-directing debut for Ukrainian filmmaker Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
The Tribe is a singular, fascinating experiment, but that's about all it is. It gives gimmicks a good name, without ever transcending its own.

Name : Tom Keogh / Alias : Seattle Times
This oddball film's mashup innovations often come at the price of storytelling discipline and, to some extent, common sense.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Horror invades the proceedings, but it doesn't hijack them. The film continues to zig where others might zag.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
A landmark of irresistible weirdness, "Spring" brings horror out of its long winter hibernation.

Name : Joe Leydon / Alias : Variety
If Richard Linklater attempted a remake of Val Lewton's Cat People, the end result might resemble Spring.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The protagonist of this low-budget indie is so well characterized that it might have developed into a straight drama instead of the horror movie it becomes, though of course that's the key to most good genre films.

Name : Neil Genzlinger / Alias : New York Times
The actors get a chance to create a real relationship, and they make the most of the opportunity.

Name : Alan Scherstuhl / Alias : Village Voice
The suspense and pleasure of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's talking-and-tentacles horror romance Spring lies in discovering what shape the film is going to take.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
A cousin to Richard Linklater's 'Before Sunrise' trilogy, with little hints of Lynchian unease along the way.

Name : David Ehrlich / Alias : Time Out
Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's Spring is a clever and severely romantic creature feature that, not unlike its dim-witted bro hero, is in desperate need of a woman's touch.

Name : Linda Barnard / Alias : Toronto Star
While not perfect, low-budget Spring takes welcome risks with the creature-feature genre.

Name : Leah Greenblatt / Alias : Entertainment Weekly
Filmmaker Jesse Moss frames his shots beautifully; the landscapes look like Andrew Wyeth paintings.

Name : Andrew O'Hehir / Alias : Salon.com
If John Steinbeck were writing in the second decade of the 21st century, "The Overnighters" is precisely the story he'd want to tell.

Name : David Rooney / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
A scenario with present-day echoes of "The Grapes of Wrath" yields perceptive insights into the way we view outsiders.

Name : Peter Howell / Alias : Toronto Star
A sobering must-see, The Overnighters speaks to the eternal dilemma of doing the right thing in a community beset by suspicion and fear.

Name : A.A. Dowd / Alias : AV Club
Moss uncovers something greater than a vision of a divided community; he's made a drama as prickly and surprising as any fictional character study.

Name : David Lewis / Alias : San Francisco Chronicle
Moss was basically a one-man production crew, which explains how he was able to film such intimate, painful conversations. His work is haunting - one of the best documentaries of the year.

Name : Peter Rainer / Alias : Christian Science Monitor
A classic example of a documentary that discovers its subject in the process of its making.

Name : Amy Nicholson / Alias : L.A. Weekly
The Overnighters sounds like the sort of dry news blurb you'd skim over in the Sunday paper, but it unfolds into an epic tragedy.

Name : Sheri Linden / Alias : Los Angeles Times
It's the rare documentary in which truly unpredictable events unfold and no assumption is safe.

Name : Tom Long / Alias : Detroit News
It develops into a study of obsession, hypocrisy, righteousness and self-doubt, questioning motive and then gob-smacking the audience with the wholly unexpected.

Name : Colin Covert / Alias : Minneapolis Star Tribune
The film features stunning third-act revelations that compel viewers to rethink its characters' actions and motivations.

Name : J. R. Jones / Alias : Chicago Reader
The movie might seem like just another liberal do-gooder profile, yet a shocker ending throws new and disturbing light on the situation, amplifying the Christian themes at the heart of the story.

Name : Lisa Kennedy / Alias : Denver Post
Moss uses images of drill towers or blistering flame as visual metaphors for other things transpiring on screen: the fracturing of a family, the heated fury that comes with a sense of betrayal.

Name : Jeannette Catsoulis / Alias : New York Times
Composed of multiple layers - more than one of which might bring tears to your eyes - this shape-shifting documentary begins as one thing and ends as quite another.

Name : Peter Keough / Alias : Boston Globe
Through patience, skill, discretion, and trust, Jesse Moss has taken a seemingly small town story and turned it into both a microcosm of today's most urgent issues and a portrait of a single suffering soul.

Name : Trevor Johnston / Alias : Time Out
An urgent portrait of compassion under fire.

Name : Stephanie Merry / Alias : Washington Post
"The Overnighters" is commendable for many reasons, not the least of which is the way it allows complex issues to remain complex. There is a clear conflict between the pastor and the town, but there's no good vs. evil.

Name : Michael Phillips / Alias : Chicago Tribune
So much of "The Overnighters" tells all sorts of truths, and Moss earned the trust of his subjects, whatever they might think of the result.

Name : Justin Chang / Alias : Variety
[A] tough-minded, admirably unresolved film .