A laugh-out-loud road trip comedy, starring writer/director Alex Karpovsky ("Girls," TINY FURNITURE) as Alex Karpovsky, a newly-single indie filmmaker who hits the road with an old friend (Onur Tukel) to promote one of his films. As the pair travels from one half-empty theater to the next, pursued by an adoring fan (Jennifer Prediger) who drives them into an exceptionally uncomfortable love triangle, Alex-as-Alex is forced to suffer an endless series of humiliations, each one more absurd than the last. (c) TribecaMovie Title : Red Flag
Release Date : Feb 22, 2013 Limited Genre Movie :Comedy,Romance
Mpaa Rating : Unrated Actors :Alex Karpovsky,Jennifer Prediger,Onur Tukel,Keith Poulson,Dustin Guy Defa,Caroline White
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User Ranting Movie Red Flag : 3.3User Count Like for Red Flag : 352
Critics Ranting For Red Flag : 6.8
Critics Percentage For Red Flag : 78 %
Review For Movie Red Flag
Alex Karpovsky picks at a navel better left ungazed.Peter Debruge-Variety
In an era when awkwardness is the new self-confidence, the director manages to be palpably neurotic without trying too hard.
Sara Stewart-New York Post
If it's all reasonably familiar indie-comedy terrain, it's delivered at a brisk, economical clip with plenty of laughs, and a series of running gags that keep getting funnier.
Andrew O'Hehir-Salon.com
If only "Red Flag" were funnier and tighter and had a sharper idea about what it means to blur the lines between self-interrogation and self-absorption.
Rachel Saltz-New York Times
Karpovsky's anxiety-ridden shtick here combines the crippling doubt and self-loathing of many Woody Allen protagonists with the obnoxious solipsism of Larry David.
Ian Buckwalter-NPR
Owing a debt to Albert Brooks' early comedies, "Red Flag" might be too much if it weren't just right.
Joe Neumaier-New York Daily News
Starring roles in two of his own micro-budget indie films suggest a future that won't involve lattes or Lena Dunham.
Greg Evans-Bloomberg News
It surprisingly abandons its obvious meta elements and unfolds as a straightforward road-trip flick, opting for an exhibition of self-loathing rather than self-reflexivity.
Nick McCarthy-Slant Magazine
Modest, personal, and nicely proportioned, Red Flag resembles one of Hong Sang-soo's self-reflexive doodles about relationships and filmmaking-Oki's Movie, in particular-and it wisely doesn't take too big a bite.
Scott Tobias-AV Club
This could be a recipe for excessive self-indulgence, but the meta quality of "Red Flag" is entirely irrelevant to its low key charm and persistent irreverence -- anchored, as always, by Karpovsky's loopy screen presence.
Eric Kohn-indieWIRE
Karpovsky is an engaging screen presence, doing comic artistic neurosis in "Red Flag"..an explosion of work from an intriguing filmmaker.
Marshall Fine-Hollywood & Fine
Establishes Karpovsky as the Woody Allen of the digital media generation: As he presents himself here, he is as self-absorbed as Allen, but his comfort with new technology results in a lo-fi video diary that the perfectionist Allen would eschew.
John Beifuss-Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)
...your tolerance for Karpovsky himself, who has appeared in several Lena Dunham projects, will determine your appreciation; based on an informal survey, I find him more amusing than most.
Luke Y. Thompson-Houston Press
When Red Flag really hits its stride, which happens somewhat late in its second act, it becomes the film it should be through and through -- a funny, well-observed, keenly acted feature about drama, trauma, and second chances.
Kate Erbland-Film School Rejects
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Writer/director/star Alex Karpovsky, a familiar face to indie filmgoers, reveals his sterling comic chops in this close-to-the-bone comedy. Teasing the line between fiction and reality, he plays an indie filmmaker named Alex Karpovsky who, dumped by a longtime girlfriend fed up with his refusal to marry, takes to the road with a reluctant old pal for a misbegotten mini tour screening his movie on college campuses and independent cinemas.TagLine Red Flag
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