"Ploning has some structural/expository problems–I call it Babel-ness–and my eyeballs started rolling every time I heard an aphorism uttered in the course of cracking cashews–but it's far more interesting than the tripe the studios have been serving up this year. Ploning feels authentic. It valiantly sticks to the laid-back, contemplative pace of its location and true subject, Cuyo in Palawan, and it takes a genuine interest in the lives of its many characters–they're people, not plot devices. I like the way the director Dante Nico Garcia cast non-actors in major roles, alongside stars like Judy Ann Santos and Mylene Dizon. Ploning is a movie about love, not the hackneyed romantic stuff, but the real, recognizable kind–among friends, family, and members of a community. Watch it, if it's still on." - Jessica Zafra