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6 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenAbove all How I Ended This Summer is a merciless contemplation of the fragile human psyche under siege.
- 80SalonAndrew O'HehirSalonAndrew O'HehirCombines memorable images of the gorgeous, rugged wilderness, meticulous sound design that emphasizes the characters' isolation, a dash of dark wit and a dose of madness.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoSergei Puskepalis (Sergei) and Grigory Dobrygin (Pavel) give powerful performances, but the real star is Mother Nature.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoSan Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoWhat stays with the viewer is a sense of a man unraveling from his own mistakes and weaknesses.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfThe movie's first hour happens to be its most absorbing. Director Alexei Popogrebsky sets up the quiet tensions between his two generationally divided characters like a chess match pocked with occasional power grabs.
- 60Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonPlaying an ignoble protagonist, Dobrygin keeps his motives always quietly evident; later, lost in a fog painted red by an emergency flare, he's an abject vision of man in a hell of his own making.