Chandler Burr

Extraordinary, astonishing, deliriously original, heart-wrenching, always unexpected, always new, hopelessly human and humane, somehow more real than reality in its ability to present the mundanely shocking secrets of our lives and the lives of those around us who are close enough to touch but who we only touch -- and it feels real, which is the shock and power of this -- through "High Maintenance." As filmmakers, Sinclair and Blichfeld are artists of infinite compassionate. Everything they touch -- the happy and the sad, the lost and they lonely, the strong and weak and broken and angry, the blissful, the contented, the despairing and the hopeful, everything they show us of these hearbreakingly real people, every wonderful unhoped-for moment of time we have with them -- is palpably suffused with their love.