"Shapiro's sleek, voyeuristic thriller (think Coppola's The Conversation re-imagined for the Facebook generation) offers one of the most refreshingly honest takes on the realities and pressures facing long-term relationships that we've ever seen—and also one of the sexiest."
— Sara Wilson, THE HUFFINGTON POST
"So much more than a hipster 'Blow-Up.' The romanticized commitment-phobia that keeps Judd Apatow in gilt-fixtured man caves is brought down to earth (or Park Slope, anyway) in this inventive indie thriller."
— Mark Holcomb, THE VILLAGE VOICE
***1/2 "Exploring both voyeurism and existential vertigo, director Dana Adam Shapiro goes off fully Hitchcocked. There's a fine glaze of sleaze, a hard gleam of danger, and also some frenzied excess... A tight domestic thriller about love going out the rear window."
— Troy Patterson, SPIN
"Unusually suspenseful and provocative for a portrait of wayward slackerdom... If you ever thought the peekaboo ominousness of 'Blow-Up' or 'The Conversation' could be the template for a relationship fidelity drama, 'Monogamy' is your movie."
— Robert Abele, THE LOS ANGELES TIMES
"A superb first fiction feature by Dana Adam Shapiro."
— Howard Feinstein, FILMMAKER
"The smartest movie about 30-something sex and marriage since 'Sex, Lies, and Videotape.'"
— AMY TAUBIN
"It's that rarest of beasts, an actual grown-up movie about sexual desire, repression, and obsession. 'Monogamy' gets at the very nature of eroticism in ways that mainstream cinema seldom does—the way a sexual experience lodges in your brain and replays in your head, and how it can drive you just a little bit crazy... In its own quiet way, it's a marvelous picture."
— Jason Bailey, DVD TALK |