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Test

2014 · 1h 35m Drama
Directed by Aleksandr Kott

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Set in 1949 on a remote farm near a nuclear testing site, Dina is living a quiet, unremarkable life with her father until two suitors enter her life.

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Fresh

Here is San Francisco as it was in its bohemian twilight, on the eve of catastrophe.

Stephen Holden, New York Times
Rotten

"Test" is woefully inadequate and unnecessary when compared with "Parting Glances" (1986) and "Longtime Companion" (1989).

Martin Tsai, Los Angeles Times
Fresh

Test is most effective when it prioritizes mood over psychological melodrama (which is often), but Johnson's approach is torn between Albert Camus and Brian De Palma.

David Ehrlich, AV Club
Fresh

Six years after his debut feature, The New Twenty, writer-director Chris Mason Johnson returns with a film that's less polished but braver.

Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
Fresh

If Test can portray a dark time with an underlying sense of hope for the future, it's because almost thirty years later, looking back at 1985, it has no ambivalence about the progress that's occurred since.

Tomas Hachard, NPR

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