J. J. Wright’s review published on Letterboxd:
Having only known Don McKellar as the super-pretentious theatrical director Darren Nichols on Slings and Arrows, I was pleased to see how unpretentious and small-scale his debut feature is. You'll never see a quieter, more intimate film about the end of the world. In some ways, it feels almost like an adaptation of a play, with its careful attention to dialogue and character, its episodic nature, and its lack of spectacle. None of these are bad things, and of course the film does things that a play can't exactly do, like cutting across multiple stories, as well. The way he evokes the end times, and how people might behave and cope with an inescapable, foreseen doom, are commendable. We see little slices of life, hints of the bad (looting, violence, hopeless despair) and the good (people comforting others, even strangers, acceptance, genuine love) that might arise in such a situation. But it's McKellar's intuitive grasp of emotion, his facility with grasping how his characters feel in the face of something unstoppable and all-consuming, that makes this film stand out. He serves almost everyone very well, and his actors rise to the challenge (particularly Sandra Oh). In spite of its apocalyptic leanings, this is really a film about connections and humanity's desperate, noble need to find them even at the end of all things.