Sew Torn

Very clever, but I've seen this story a few hundred times in my life.

“Sew Torn” isn’t a genre exercise, not really. It’s more of an off-kilter riff on the familiar.

Macdonald nestles Run Lola Run’s loop-like structure inside a cozy crime thriller, the type that comes heavily armed with a sense of whimsy, if a bit subdued.

Like the thread contraptions and what little sewing we see, the comedy is a bit, well, threadbare, while the full garment of the film lacks the finishing on the seams that would make it satisfying and professional-looking.

Some will thrill to the film’s silliness, others may find it a joke stretched beyond elasticity, but it’ll have many putting a pin in Macdonald’s name.

'Pushing Daisies' meets 'Run Lola Run' — you won't want to miss this quirky crime comedy.

The quirks of this slightly fantastical black-comedy crime thriller are many, varied, and messily disjointed. But there’s a delicious oddness to its unpredictability and its spin on familiar tropes.

Although its ambition sometimes exceeds its grasp, this offbeat crime thriller navigates some clever science-fiction twists with a winning balance of humor and suspense.

Freddy Macdonald's feature-length debut embraces the offbeat and visually distinctive Rashomon-style crime comedy.

It's a nifty trick of a thriller, filled with even niftier tricks of comedic invention.