“It’s hard to take your eyes off Mendel’s ominous, ready to explode performance”  

 - NY Magazine

“Charlie is a Marlon Brando character in a John Cassavetes movie. The playwright and actor D. J. Mendel plays him with a touch of poetry.”  

 - NY Times

"In an angry, uneasy performance, D.J. Mendel owns this film.”

 - Village Voice