Apart

Even when the movie exploits cliches - cue washed-out colors and eerie scraping noises - it exploits them in limited quantities, portioning out only what's required by mood and plot.

Almost all of the film's remarkably static scenes reveal too little and confuse too much.

All dressed up with nowhere to go, the visually adept Apart has a narrative rhythm as disjointed as the personalities of its lead teenagers

Tries too hard and ends up substituting pretension for punch.