"An outlaw-lovers-on-the-run saga in which the leads don't commit a crime, fall in love, or ever hit the road, River of Grass works (best) as a piece of genre revisionism...a modern, ennui-laden film noir turned inside out and filmed in bright colors under the Florida sun....New York writer-director Kelly Reichardt returned to her native area of suburban Miami to make (this ultra-low-budget indie) and she clearly knows her way around the neighborhood as well as around film conventions....A terminally bored housewife and mother...Cozy (Lisa Bowman) doesn't know what to do with herself until she meets Lee (Larry Fessenden), an entropy specialist....When Cozy accidentally fires (a pistol), she and Lee believe they've shot a man and bolt to a motel to decide what to do....(With) the perfect opportunity to become wild, even legendary outlaws on the lam, they can't get it together to do a thing."(Variety).