"Across the three features he's made to date, Tyler Taormina has emerged as a true American independent, with an inquisitive eye and extraordinary depth of feeling for adolescent rites of passage that unfold - poignantly, mysteriously, with a sense of romantic possibility - amid the suburbs' lonely, nocturnal stretches."
"His subliminally menacing feature debut, 'Ham on Rye,' captured the nervous anticipation of a group of teenagers preparing for a formal event that will shape their lives forever - not a prom, it turns out, but a ceremonial dance at the local deli, where they are to pair off and confront the arrival of a disquieting, isolated adulthood."
"'Christmas Eve in Miller's Point,' Taormina's third and most miraculous feature yet, follows three generations of an Italian-American family returning to an ancestral Long Island residence for the holidays, only for a wistful sadness to settle in for some of them as it's revealed the cherished home will soon be put on the market."
"This sense of longing to preserve time and space as it begins to fade into memory is a hallmark of Taormina's filmmaking. Continuing his partnership with cinematographer Carson Lund, Taormina envisions this family gathering as a shimmering holiday fantasia...with a nostalgia that appears to be crystalizing imperfectly before our eyes."
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