Name : Diana Clarke / Alias : Village Voice
This film does not pander. Rather, it demands that the viewer rise to the occasion.

Name : Daniel M. Gold / Alias : New York Times
While affirming the dignity of its subjects, "Mala Mala" shows there's little glamour attached to the pursuit of selfhood.

Name : Adam Nayman / Alias : AV Club
The outcome of this campaign gives the film a heroic arc, and yet amid all the images of celebration and joyful physical abandon the most lingering images are the ones depicting daily routines.

Name : Ronnie Scheib / Alias : Variety
Beginning as a colorful documentary about the Puerto Rican transgender community. Mala Mala slowly morphs into a celebration of solidarity and collective activism without ever losing sight of its likable protagonists.

Name : Frank Scheck / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Mala Mala depicts its subjects with an uncommon degree of empathy and understanding, not to mention glamor.

Name : Geoff Berkshire / Alias : Variety
Flashes of promise can't save Comet, an ambitious indie misfire that adopts a playful time-jumping chronology in order to chart five key turning points in a six-year relationship.

Name : Todd McCarthy / Alias : Hollywood Reporter
Although there's talent on display in all aspects of this time-jumping, visually distinctive independent. Esmail strenuously overplays his hand with the torrent of obnoxious dialogue he asks his male lead to deliver.

Name : Chuck Wilson / Alias : Village Voice
Esmail frames his lovers against landscapes that are richly textured and swooningly romantic, but they prove unworthy of the fuss.

Name : Moira MacDonald / Alias : Seattle Times
Watching a not-very-interesting couple break up is one thing; watching them break up and get back together numerous times in different universes and dimensions is, well . to paraphrase "Jaws," I'm going to need a bigger popcorn bag.

Name : Bill Goodykoontz / Alias : Arizona Republic
Justin Long is a fine actor, but you have to like him a lot to get through "Comet," Sam Esmail's trippy, overly mannered romance.

Name : Mark Olsen / Alias : Los Angeles Times
Its conceits . get in the way of its characters, making it feel fussy and convoluted when it aims for something more simple and elegant.

Name : Elizabeth Weitzman / Alias : New York Daily News
The actors give their all, and Esmail's got an interesting directorial approach. But his own misguided script continually pulls this starry-eyed project down.

Name : David DeWitt / Alias : New York Times
These occasionally obnoxious, certainly neurotic young lovers have beating, sometimes broken hearts, and that, as the apostle Paul once noted, tends to trump all.