A successful young doctor with a beautiful wife, a happy child, and a comfortable house finds his life suddenly changed in ways he never thought possible after being injured in a serious car accident. To the outside eye Lazar Perkov has everything -- indeed his friends and colleagues have even gone so far as to christen him with the nickname "Lucky." But appearances can sometimes be...
[The] two very attractive leads, Mr. Nacev and Ms. Stanojevska, were picked out of a pool of aspirants in Macedonia and its neighboring countries. Actually, they are so arresting together that it is truly unearthly.
– Andrew Sarris,
New York Observer,
28 Jan 2009
rotten:
Shifting between garish city and bucolic scenes, Shadows offers some arresting images but fails to make good on its intriguing early scenes, with frissons of uncanny menace sunk by a glib, awkwardly paced and increasingly cliche screenplay.
– Ben Walters,
Time Out New York,
29 Jan 2009
rotten:
A respectable enough little ghost story, but it loses a lot of sparkle by being similar to such other guy-talks-to-the-dead thrillers as The Sixth Sense and Ghost Town.
– Noel Murray,
AV Club,
29 Jan 2009
fresh:
An unwieldy hybrid of historical allegory and supernatural mystery.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
30 Jan 2009
rotten:
Milcho Manchevski's Shadows is visually striking but gets bogged down in supernatural cliches.