A winding, meditative journey that favors mood over substance. It comes close to forging new ground but never pushes far enough and gets lost in its increasingly convoluted storytelling.

Diego Freitas’ vivid and startling tale of an unsound mind appealingly summarizes how a series of formative years, overflowing in trauma and familial conflict, can surmount to honest and uncomfortable realizations about one’s self.

My Dead Ones is a surreal, out-of-body trip through one man's psychosis and his yearning for acceptance and love.

If one can get through the boring parts and do not mind being kept a distance for most of the movie, they'll find a well-directed, if meandering, thriller anchored by an outstanding lead performance.