“This second feature by Alejandro Adams confirms him as an arresting talent. [Viewers] may be fascinated to the point of repeat viewings to sort out its myriad characters and half-buried clues.”
Dennis Harvey, Variety

“There is so much that’s unique and challenging about this movie that it would be churlish to accentuate the negative. As a message to the future, BABNIK marks Adams as a filmmaker to watch.”
Ray Greene, Boxoffice

“Micro in budget, macro in ambition, accomplishment, and scope, Adams’s slyly withholding film prompts multiple viewings–and deserves them.”
Jim Ridley, Village Voice

“Working with no budget and local locations, Adams has burnished all the falsehood out of this fiction. With BABNIK, Adams is no longer a local genius but a national contender.”
Richard von Busack, Metro

“[CANARY is] wildly ambitious…an overwhelming and surprisingly fresh-feeling sense of dystopian dread.”
Karina Longworth, Spout

“[CANARY is] terrific…very creepy and uncanny. It’s quite an achievement.”
Phillip Lopate

“Mysterious, elliptical, Bresson-like. [CANARY] is to biotech what PRIMER was to time-travel.”
Richard von Busack, Metro

“Like the best ‘little’ films, CANARY is a very big film…full of wonder and menace…It is a film to be reckoned with, to be savored, and not to be forgotten.”
Nick Rombes, Digital Poetics

“[CANARY is] one of the most perceptive and pleasurable American films of Our Late Era…Adams makes cinema like he has something to prove and a system to eradicate.”
Craig Keller, Cinemasparagus

“It’s truly seldom you see an aesthetic, particularly one as overused as the handheld video-cam, employed so judiciously and with such artless efficiency. It’s not hyperbolic to suggest the direction could influence or be part of a new trend in filmmaking…Make no mistake: this camera is a weapon.”
Sara Schieron, Box Office

“Adams’s directorial style is so accomplished…The easy formalism is impeccable…”
Michael Sicinski

“Consistently fascinating, even where it purposefully attempts to distance the viewer. [CANARY] successfully blends thought provoking, as opposed to preachy, social commentary with novel forms of visual story telling.”
Rodney Perkins, Twitch

“It is tough to watch Adams’ films without thinking about cinema itself…[CANARY] trades in hieroglyphs. [It] undoes a lot of the patterns and conventions we usually expect from science fiction.”
M. Leary, Filmwell

“Adams has made a film that is jam-packed with ideas and is thus defiantly open to interpretation, yet not frustratingly so…I have seen CANARY twice and it has made my brain spin in uncomfortable new directions.”
Michael Tully, Hammer to Nail

“[CANARY is] a sucker punch of a film, and its creator is a master in the making.”
Lauren Baggett, Twitch

“CANARY is one of the first films I’ve seen in ages that sent me scrambling to learn more…because it engaged me on so many levels.”
Chuck Tryon

“Alejandro Adams, scrappy visionary at the helm of this hell-bent vessel,…breathes his soothsaying outrage in ominous whispers and embeds modern malaise in the modern mundane.”
A.A. Dowd

“[Adams's] work is so much more ambitious and intelligent and accomplished than most of the Amerindie films that come out of Sundance every year…”
Mike D’Angelo