75 Philadelphia Inquirer | Carrie Rickey Its portrait of an artist hungry for experience is as timely today as when it was written. Read full review
75 Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert Ask the Dust requires an audience with a special love for film noir, with a feeling for the loneliness and misery of the writer. Read full review
70 The Hollywood Reporter | Sheri Linden The film is faithful to the book's tone of dark ache and much of its detail and for the most part terrifically cast. But Towne can't overcome an essential challenge of the material: Arturo and Camilla are constructs and ciphers as much as they are vivid characters -- difficult roles, to be sure. Neither the screenplay nor the actors manage to get far under their skin. Read full review
63 New York Daily News | Jami Bernard The sepia-tinted palette of Ask the Dust drips, reeks and creaks of the seamy side of a city that takes more often than it gives. Read full review