January 2007

"Astonishing in its simple beauty, amazing performances, and hypnotic pace"
  -John Waters, Artforum

"While it's been compared to David Gordon Green's equally noncommercial George Washington (2000), with which it shares sleepy rhythms and blue-collar, multiethnic small-town settings, it's a far more organic piece of work.   -TV Guide

"Plotless in the best sense...There's comparatively little dialogue throughout, but a simmering uneasiness becomes visible in moments of near stillness"
  -Village Voice

"The movie operates primarily on the level of suggestion and insinuation...Yet beneath its drowsy rhythms, the movie builds an ineffable sadness around the loneliness of teenage parenting and the disconnect between sex and its consequences."
  -New York Times

"One of the most original, moving, and accomplished American independent films in recent years"
  -New Yorker

"Visual poetry aside, what makes Hamilton a treasure is its thoughtful, unsentimental fleshing out of lives often glimpsed (in movies and elsewhere) but rarely considered"
  -Time Out New York

"Hamilton is a tribute to the power of observation and mood"
  -New York Post

"Porterfield and cinematographer Jeremy Saulnier can find drama in something as small as the complex rhythm of children on a swing set"
  -Chicago Reader