Variety reports on the acquisition of The Babysitters by PEACE ARCH ENTERTAINMENT.
-- Daily Variety, October 5th 2007
“David Ross’ film is a completely refreshing look at a story you’ve likely heard and seen before (in the news, books or tv). The young star of The Babysitters, Katherine Waterston, is certainly one to watch in the coming years."
-- Peter Sciretta, Film.com, September 12th 2007
“…a dark situational comedy that leaves audiences laughing uneasily and grappling with [the] moral discomfort resultant of their enjoyment.”
--Sarah Gopaul, PopJournalism.ca, September 17th 2007
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Tribeca Film Festival interviews Jeff Nichols for Festival news
Elisabeth Donnelly, Tribecafilmfestival.org
"The film is a here-and-now American potboiler and a stripped-down parable that can be appreciated by any culture."
--Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times, March 26th, 2008
Shotgun Stories is a New York Magazine Critic's Pick.
--David Edelstein, New York Magazine, March 24th 2008
"Like his fellow Mason-Dixon minimalist David Gordon Green (the film’s producer), Nichols favors mood and ellipses over momentum and explanations, which gives this contemporary Hatfields-versus-McCoys narrative a beguiling, drifting atmosphere."
--David Fear, Time Out NY March 26th 2008
Paste Magazine says Shotgun Stories is one of the highlights of the AUSTIN FILM FESTIVAL
--Paste Magazine, November 8th 2007
"(A) great discovery ... a film that never steps wrong and holds us in a vise of tightening revenge."
-- Roger Ebert, rogerebert.com, October 16th, 2007
“In his feature directorial debut, Jeff Nichols is surprisingly not afraid to allow pregnant silences or sweeping scenery to fill his screen. Nor is he afraid to spend the time necessary to build his supporting characters with meticulous detail.”
-- Patricia Freeman, IndependentFilm.com, April 29th 2007
“Jeff Nichols’s film is a searing, then sobering exploration of primal injuries, with a truth that can’t be repeated too often: Violence is never cathartic.”
-- David Edelstein, New York Magazine, April 30th 2007
“What could easily have been a modern-day hicksploitation thriller is rendered too sensitively to spell out why the situation is so heartbreaking; only the unfeeling would look on with patronizing detachment.”
-- Aaron Hillis, Premiere Magazine.com, May 2nd 2007
“A measured and sobering meditation on violence and discontent... a highly intelligent and accomplished first feature that makes palpable suffering, loss and the wanton destructiveness of vengeance... [O]ne of the most striking debuts by a young American director... superb production values that belie the low budget.”
--Patrick McGavin, Screen Dailiy, Feburary 27th 2007
“A Point-blank buckshot blast of inarticulate American rage, played with the disarmingly placid inevitability of Greek tragedy... [a] precisely modulated yet cumulatively forceful story of a rural family feud turned deadly.
--Eddie Cockrell, Daily Variety, February 12th, 2007
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