The Critic

2018 | USA | 15 MIN
Narrative Short, Drama

World premiere at the 34th Boston Film Festival, 2020 Webby Award nominee for Best Individual Performance (Stella Velon), winner in Amazon’s inaugural 2019 All Voices Film Festival, winner Best Director at the 2018 UK Film Review Awards, Best Short Film at the 2019 Method Fest, and Grand Jury Prize at the 2019 Queen Palm International Film Festival, as well as Indie Shorts Mag's Editor's Pick - ‘The Best Of All, From 2018!’. ‘The Critic’ offers a glimpse into the darker side of fame, as a starry-eyed actress, fresh off a major win embarks on an interview that proves to be a lot more than just that.

Critically acclaimed.

“★★★★★
a particularly poignant piece of cinema in the current social climate... loaded with exceptional dialogue... and packed with substantial emotional heft”

— Chris Olson UK FILM REVIEW

“★★★★★
Hard-hitting and achingly moving... Worth every minute of the short!”

— Nimisha Menon INDIE SHORTS MAG

“★★★★
grabs you from the start... and then straps you in on an emotional roller coaster ride.”

— Alan Ng FILM THREAT

“emotionally involving and thought-provoking… [The Critic] is nearly instantly engaging and a remarkably poignant story that somehow manages to travel a broad emotional spectrum while delivering a complete story within its modest 15-minute running time.”

— Richard Propes THE INDEPENDENT CRITIC

“quietly fierce, dramatically potent, and heartbreakingly palpable… The Critic is a sublime piece of indie film magic”

— Kirk Fernwood ONE FILM FAN

“The Critic is an indie short that, painted in vibrant colors and rife with symbolism and underlying meaning, is an emotional ride that is immediate and powerful.”

— Mark Ziobro THE MOVIE BUFF

The Critic Poster.jpg — Synopsis: A starry-eyed actress with a troubled past faces her harshest critic during an interview gone wrong.

Starring: Stella Velon, Alan Smyth, Todd Karner
Written and Directed by: Stella Velon
Producer/Executive Producer: Jean Gabriel Kauss
Cinematography by: Akis Konstantakopoulos
Edited by: Ivan Andrijanic
Music by: Asaf Sagiv
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