It's an independent film with a difference, but not as emotionally engaging as you'd really like it to be.

Fails and Talbot's writing follows no script doctor's convention. The direction reveals no obvious influences.

It's less of a rallying cry against gentrification than a rumination on the kind of pained acceptance those who suffer its effects must face.

This cinematic debut from Joe Talbot may be an imperfect film, but it has so many distinguishable characteristics and particular eccentricities that it becomes quite impossible to compare it to anything else.