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 "The ensemble cast turns in a collectively stellar performance, and the writing is tight and truthful, full of funny situations and honest observations."
-- Steve Tilley, EDMONTON SUN
"A subtly brilliant satire."
-- Joshua Tanzer, OFFOFFOFF
"A smart and creative comedy that skewers cheaply dehumanizing architecture and self-absorbed yuppie mentalities in a series of skillfully assembled scenes."
-- David Sterritt, CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
 "The setting turns out to be more interesting than any of the character dramas, which never reach satisfying conclusions."
-- Daniel Steinhart, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"The perfect film for those who like sick comedies that can be snide."
-- Dennis Schwartz, OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS
"Disappointingly, the characters are too strange and dysfunctional, Tom included, to ever get under the skin, but this is compensated in large part by the off-the-wall dialogue, visual playfulness and the outlandishness of the idea itself."
-- Rebort, IOFILM.CO.UK
"It's funny, has something to say and moves along faster than many other films in the genre."
-- Christabel Padmore, APOLLO GUIDE
"The observations of this social/economic/urban environment are canny and spiced with irony."
-- Arthur Lazere, CULTUREVULTURE.NET
"Squandering his opportunity to make absurdist observations, Burns gets caught up in the rush of slapstick thoroughfare."
-- Jeremiah Kipp, MATINEE MAGAZINE
"It's Burns' visuals, characters and his punchy dialogue, not his plot, that carry waydowntown."
-- Louis B. Hobson, CALGARY SUN
"A cogent yet hilarious indictment of our soul-destroying urban existence."
-- Barbara Goslawski, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
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Martin and Burns' script is amusing and often inventive, although some choices
...are nonsensically plot
driven."
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
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"Quirky, original, and often very funny."
-- Steve Simels, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"A film with a great premise but only a great premise."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"There's no denying that Burns is a filmmaker with a bright future ahead of him."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"...either you're willing to go with this claustrophobic concept or you're not."
-- David Nusair, REEL FILM REVIEWS
"Waydowntown is by no means a perfect film, but its boasts a huge charm factor and smacks of originality."
-- Bruce Kirkland, JAM! MOVIES
"Often self-consciously surreal, this award-winner scores high for originality."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
"A sour, nasty offering."
-- Phil Hall, FILM THREAT
"waydowntown may not be an important movie, or even a good one, but it provides a nice change of mindless pace in collision with the hot Oscar season currently underway."
-- Rachel Gordon, FILMCRITIC.COM
"Canadian filmmaker Gary Burns' inventive and mordantly humorous take on the soullessness of work in the city."
-- Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat, SPIRITUALITY AND HEALTH
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"You wouldn't want to live waydowntown, but it is a hilarious place to visit."
-- Pam Grady, REEL.COM
"Burns' comic sensibility is patently absurd but his message is pathologically frightening."
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Waydowntown just like most large cities, isn’t somewhere you’ll want to spend the rest of your life, but it sure is a fun place to visit for a while."
-- Jeffrey Bruner, DES MOINES REGISTER
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