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Closet Monster

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A closeted Newfoundland teen is desperate to escape his hometown and the haunting memories of his turbulent childhood. When he falls for a handsome, worldly co-worker at the hardware store, he is forced to confront his fears.
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CRITICS OF "Closet Monster"
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Film Journal International
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September 23, 2016

The determined eccentricity of the entire conceit-liberally laced with moments of hallucinatory surrealism-weighs the movie down, creating an airless ambiance at odds with any youthful verve which might appeal to the viewer.
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Film Inquiry
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December 26, 2016

If you didn't think a hamster voiced by Isabella Rossellini could make you cry, think again.
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San Diego Reader
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October 13, 2016

A film school thesis project that somehow found its way into general release.
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Slant Magazine
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September 20, 2016

It's when Stephen Dunn dares to inhabit the how and not the what of queerness that the film feels authentic and deliciously strange.
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indieWire
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September 29, 2016

Dunn plays around with perspective and style, but all the flash doesn't obscure the film's emotion and heart, which are deep and true.
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Out Magazine
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March 03, 2017

Somehow that revolutionary, empowering message never got through to Dunn. His film seems sexually and psychologically arrested in the pathology that blocks coming out.
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San Francisco Chronicle
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November 30, 2016

One way to tell a promising director is by the acting in his or her film, and the performances in "Closet Monster" are solid all the way around, no matter how small the role.
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Excelsior
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December 12, 2016

A psychological thriller that has the ability to leave no one indifferent, something that makes one of the pearls to discover this year and a future cult title. [Full review in Spanish]
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Los Angeles Times
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September 29, 2016

It's nothing less than an emotional exorcism.
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PopMatters
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September 30, 2016

If Dunn can direct his next work with more considered distance from his characters, he has a great future as an inventive and assured film director.
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Seattle Times
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October 24, 2016

Sort of a horror film, but not really. It's too funny to be categorized that way.
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RogerEbert.com
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September 23, 2016

Closet Monster is most successful when it uses fable-like qualities to allow us to feel Oscar's emotions viscerally rather than narratively.
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