Synopsis
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected.
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Cast
- Jena MaloneAngela
- Chloë SevignyEmma
- Luke GrimesBen
- Devon GearhartIan
- Michael O'KeefeBen's Dad
- Trey HansenSammy
- Josh HamiltonSammy's Dad
- Patricia ArquettePsychic
- Lana Elizabeth GreenKaren
Recommandations
- 70
Village Voice
The pained, textured performances of Sevigny and Malone enrich their scenes, but when it ranges away from its leads, The Wait can seem like an anthology of moments rather than a narrative whole, although those moments do accumulate into a mood of chilly, gently surreal isolation. - 50
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
The payoff isn’t nearly as interesting as the cryptic set-up and disquieting performances and scenes that precede it in The Wait. - 50
The Hollywood Reporter
An art film whose seductive qualities don't entirely erase the suspicion that its weirder elements might be empty affectation. - 40
The Dissolve
While Blash intends The Wait to be a study in stasis, depicting emotional paralysis in various forms, the thin, amorphous nature of both this film and Lying suggest that he simply doesn’t have much to offer apart from uncontextualized moodiness. - 40
Los Angeles Times
Writer-director M. Blash's sophomore film is ethereal and trippy, told less in scenes than in oblique snatches, not unlike the experience of emotional paralysis. This approach grows wearying. - 38
Slant Magazine
By the end, audiences will most likely feel as if they've been locked out of the drama that's presumably unfolding right in front of them. - 38
New York Post
The dialogue is so vague, and the plot so minimal, it all feels like a rather pointless exercise. - 30
The New York Times
It’s all just so much empty eye candy.