It's a testament to the filmmaker's instinctive poise and restraint that Clean, Shaven is unblinking but not voyeur¬istic, poetic but not sentimental, suspenseful but not exploitative, extreme but not sensational. Kerrigan abstains from overt psychologizing, and Clean, Shaven, although perhaps the most thoroughgoing filmic exploration of schizophrenia ever made, sidesteps the debates and competing theories that have sprung up over the years.
Dennis Lim
October 16, 2006