Anesthesia

"Lacking epic pretensions and modest in scale, running under 90 minutes, Anesthesia is really closer in spirit to Rodrigo García’s delicate 2005 gem, 'Nine Lives.' And it doesn’t waste a word or an image" 

"The cast is strong, but the movie itself is a little exhausting, like a New York cousin to Paul Haggis’ Crash, with a smaller budget and a bigger vocabulary" 

"The editing and the compositions here can be slightly ungainly, and some of the characters are not quite fully realized, but Nelson ultimately transcends the limits of his own material (...) This film demands to be taken very seriously, and it earns that right" 

"Overall the film plays like an annotated philosophy lecture (...) Despite the generally talented cast of Anesthesia, its linked-lives format, which we’ve seen so many times before, is frustrating" 

"A heartfelt but heavy-handed essay on human interaction and isolation"