Asphalt City

"Arrestingly grim."

"Overall the vital signs of this film are not great."

"Has a pulse, but lacks heart."

"There may be no better actor than Penn at inhabiting such stark material."

"Sauvaire's stylishly overdone film is mired in trauma for its own sensationalist sake."

"Penn is terrific as Rutkovsky."

"(Penn) is frequently sublime in a brutal and unrelenting film."

"Gruelling."

"Despite a repetitive, episodic structure, Asphalt City is never boring."

"Attempts to make sense of the private lives of Ollie and Gene are dogged with cliché."

"Less a film than a guttersnipe’s wallow."

"This is a stark, pitch-black, violent and gruesome waking nightmare of a story."

"Maddening."

"Screenwriters King and Brown don’t overexert themselves concocting fresh-sounding dialogue."