River of Grass is very funny, but in a more somber key it also test-drives what will become Reichardt's specialty: the transformation of cheerless wastelands into backdrops for journeys of the parched soul. Full Review

It's not exactly action-filled, but its main character is explicit about what's on her mind and how deep-seated her desire to escape is.

This unassumingly brilliant filmmaker illuminates the sense and flavor of this disconsolate epoch in all its unheroic vexation. Full Review

Rating: A- -- Reichardt subverts expectations at every turn, while simultaneously painting a vivid portrait of southern Florida (the title refers to the Everglades, and the film goes back and forth between Broward and Dade County) in all its sun-drenched seediness. Full Review

Rating: 5/5 -- Awash in almost-no-budget '90s indie smudge, it's a 'Bonnie and Clyde' about people who only wish they were Bonnie and Clyde. Full Review

A film of fizzy languor ... terrific ... Full Review

...The workings of fate, so crucial to the genre Reichardt is sending up, become for her a source of rueful humor....Russell captures perfectly the sense of defeat experienced by Jimmy...