If you like Joe Swanberg you better forgot this title. The story line don't make sense and the rythme is so slow than even after 14 coffees you'll lost the focus. The naked girls are pretty but that's not enough to keep the interest. A thriller movie as to be built adequately or else it'll lose all it's purpose.

I give only 2 out of ten for the effort but' to the producer and director, please stay away of this kind of movies that require more talent or/and cash that what you can afford.

In this sexy thriller a photographer (Adam Wingard) who specializes in erotic photo shoots is suspected of murder when one of his models is found dead.

When starring Adam Wingard and written-directed by Joe Swanberg, you expect AJ Bowen or Ti West to show up somewhere, but not this time. Wingard's directing has been hit and miss, so it was nice to see Swanberg at the helm this time. He knows how to make a simple picture look good. Audiences might get drawn in immediately from the really sweet opening credits sequence, sort of going for a neo-noir look.

Some critics have called this a "soft-core porn", and one threesome scene does come across as quite gratuitous, not to mention the countless other times nudity comes into play. Was this necessary? Probably not. But it does effectively drive home the theme of jealousy, as it puts us right in the middle of the emotion: a photographer, even if completely innocent, runs the risk of making his significant other jealous. And this goes well beyond photography.

Most reviewers were mixed to negative. One exception was Evan Dickson of Bloody Disgusting, who rated the movie 3.5/5 stars and wrote, "As a rule, if you hate what most people consider to be mumblecore, this isn't the movie for you. But if you're open to this somewhat shambolic riff on noir, you might find yourself pleasantly surprised." Regardless of what is "mumblecore" or not, this film stands on its own merits. Maybe the merits are not that strong and that makes it hard for the film to stand, but different viewers may take away different things from it. While clearly not the best in independent horror-thrillers being made today, it is far from the worst.

"24 Exposures" is a boring, pointless waste of time. It's so bad that I have started to write this review with still about ten minutes of run-time left. I don't want to waste any more time on this movie.

Mumblecore generally feels pretty pointless. I loved some of the "mumblegore" flicks, though, like "Baghead" and "Cheap Thrills". Those were great.

But "24 Exposures" and "A Horrible Way to Die" have all the bad things about this subgenre, and none of the good. They're so unfocused as to be tedious. Suspense requires a sure hand at the wheel. It has to be built carefully. These things barely qualify as movies, they're so slapdash and haphazardly put together.

It's weird how much nudity there is in "24 Exposures". Some nudity makes sense as the movie is "about" (not the right word) a guy who takes pornographic photos of women who have been made up to appear dead. But it feels like every scene has a woman showing her breasts.

This isn't Andy Sidaris or Russ Meyer, though. It's a low budget indie flick, so the women are pretty average looking. And the nudity becomes distracting. You would wonder why they put so much of it in, if not for the fact that very little in the movie seems to have been done deliberately, so underwrought it is, so maybe it just kind of happened that way. Maybe they didn't even plan it. Who knows?

It's tempting to say that "24 Exposures" is "mercifully brief" at only one hour and seventeen minutes. But that run-time just feels so much longer than it is. Instead I would recommend you have mercy on yourself and skip "24 Exposures" entirely. It's for mumblecore fetishists only.