TOE TO TOE PRESS
"...an engaging frankness about youthful liberty as both a weighty armor and a dangerously alluring escape hatch." read article
Robert Abele - The Los Angeles Times
"With TOE TO TOE, Abt draws on her reality-based filmmaking background but also shows she's not shy to elevate dramatic tension when the time is right." read article
David Friend - Variety
"TOE TO TOE springs out with an emotional verve and confidence that won over an appreciative Sundance audience." read article
Duane Byrge - The Hollywood Reporter
"TOE TO TOE is the most driven of the American movies so far at Sundance... a swift-moving story with standout lead performances." read article
Steve Ramos - indieWIRE
"Emotionally charged... the film is a quiet relief rather than a political polemic."
Betsey Sharkey - The Los Angeles Times
"TOE TO TOE has an ascendent raw score and cinematographer Alan Jacobsen receives highest grades." read article
Scott Macaulay - Filmmaker Magazine
"TOE TO TOE is the New Obama Cinema, it treats race and class with insight and enthusiasm."
Steve Ramos - indieWIRE
"Abt's work shows us that movies about tough subjects can be done well. She is unafraid to be challenging and deal with issues that most films skirt like promiscuity, abortion, sexually transmitted diseases and most especially race and class."
Melissa Silverstein - The Huffington Post/Women & Hollywood
"Prods and provokes, ultimately can't help but move you." read article
Marshall Fine - NY Film Critics Circle
OTHER PRESS
By A.O. Scott
February 26, 2010
On a High School Lacrosse Team, Opposites Attract and Attack
If "Toe to Toe" were a young-adult novel, it would be embraced and argued about in classrooms and eagerly read by thoughtful teenage girls. The film's observations about race, class and friendship are clear and accessible without being overly didactic, and its sometimes harsh candor about female sexuality would not be unfamiliar to devotees of contemporary adolescent literature...
