Jinx Sister

"A rewarding film."

"Some may find the premise too slight to sustain a feature - the film is at least 10 minutes too long and many scenes have characters staring out the window long after the shot has served its dramatic function. But it's a creditable local effort."

"Sibling dynamics can be fraught territory, and a challenge to any film-maker looking to expose and express the sources of friction. How to refresh or avoid clichés (“You were always Dad’s favourite”/“She stole my boyfriend”); how to reveal the past – flashback or exposition; and how to direct performances that are as much internal as external. With Jinx Sister, Athina Tsoulis can be proud of the way she’s risen to that challenge."

"Too many false notes, outrageously contrived plot points, and some woefully over-explicatory dialogue pretty much kill the film stone dead before it's far out of the starting blocks... But there is still some good stuff to Jinx Sister. The leads – especially Wiseman – are uniformly strong and committed , all of them managing to find some unlikely moments of truth in the white spaces on the page between Tsoulis's dialogue."