Awards & Accolades

Retrograde

Grand Jury Honorable Mention: Best Breakout Feature, Slamdance Film Festival

Grand Jury Prize Nominee: Best Narrative Feature, Slamdance Film Festival

Clint Howard Character Actor Award for Molly Reisman, Sidewalk Film Festival

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Winner: Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, Mammoth Lakes Film Festival

Press

Retrograde

“Played with a masterful deadpan by Reisman, Molly is touchingly unlikable — not in the showy ways now fashionable in movies about antiheroines, but in the pricklier, everyday ways that women are rarely allowed to be onscreen."
—The New York Times

Canadian Film Fest returns with a focus on females, The Toronto Star

'Retrograde' Is Barely a Movie, and It's Great, Exclaim!

The 50 Best 2-23 Films You Might Have Missed, The Film Stage

"One of the strongest independent features of the year also has one of the simplest premises..."
—The Film Stage

Molly Reisman shines in indie gem Retrograde, She Does The City

“A dryly comedic indie gem. Kafka in miniature.”
—Wisconsin Film Festival

“Deeply uncomfortable but profoundly rewarding. Retrograde is quite a ride.”
—AWFJ

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“Brimming with detail and character, it is dry in its wit, and thoroughly sincere [...] Murray and his small cast and crew of Ontario-based filmmakers have delivered one of the most affecting portraits of young adult life in a post-recession world."
—Screen Anarchy’s Top Slamdance Film Festival Picks

"Never before have I seen a film that more closely captures the mindset, emotions, and speech patterns of millennials than Adrian Murray’s Withdrawn."
—The Young Folks

“Murray’s film is a tiny scale gem of a picture, one that deserves every bit of praise it has received and this latest trailer catches the tone of it beautifully."
—Screen Anarchy

“A humorous and oblique examination of wasted space and wasted time.”
—SLUG Mag

“From trying to solve his Rubik’s cube to trying to hack into another’s credit card account, Aaron is a character for our time: lost, adrift, addicted to video games and Internet news.”
—Diversions LA

“Using a deceptively simple visual scheme that yields effectively comedic dividends, Withdrawn offers subtly poignant commentary on a lost generation struggling to connect.”
—LAFT USA

“So funny in a low key way. This is not hi-jinx. It’s not broad comedy. But it’s really smart, inventive filmmaking."
—MovieMaker Magazine: 2017 Slamdance Fest Preview

Withdrawn Exclusive Trailer: Slamdance Festival Film Follows a Broke Loner Who Tries to Defraud a Credit Card Owner, IndieWire