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All Critics (15) | Top Critics (6) | Fresh (2) | Rotten (13)
A work of stunning technique eclipsed by its increasingly jaw-dropping solipsism... Sep 13, 2018 | Full Review…
A work of stunning technique eclipsed by its increasingly jaw-dropping solipsism...
Peter Debruge
A spectacular mash of half-baked ideas... Well, that, and a movie that just got lost somewhere in the editing room. Sep 12, 2018 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
A spectacular mash of half-baked ideas... Well, that, and a movie that just got lost somewhere in the editing room.
Eric Kohn
[Dolan's] film falls victim to his worst tendencies. Sep 11, 2018 | Full Review…
[Dolan's] film falls victim to his worst tendencies.
Brian Tallerico
Dolan's English-language debut whinges about personal neuroses rather than probing homophobia or celebrity. Sep 11, 2018 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review…
Dolan's English-language debut whinges about personal neuroses rather than probing homophobia or celebrity.
Kate Taylor
It starts to feel like Dolan is parodying a Dolan movie. Sep 11, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
It starts to feel like Dolan is parodying a Dolan movie.
Benjamin Lee
[A] half-baked, cumbersome, overlong psychodrama. Sep 11, 2018 | Full Review…
[A] half-baked, cumbersome, overlong psychodrama.
Stephen Dalton
What this needs is cohesion and a greater insight into the actions and outcomes he traces. And, most importantly, it needs far more heart than what is ultimately there. A Dolan film without the heart is about as disappointing as you can get. Sep 21, 2018 | Full Review…
What this needs is cohesion and a greater insight into the actions and outcomes he traces. And, most importantly, it needs far more heart than what is ultimately there. A Dolan film without the heart is about as disappointing as you can get.
Tomas Trussow
Even at their most tonally awkward and clumsily soundtracked, Dolan's films can't help but be watchable, the phoniness of the hopped-up style melting away in the face of his performers' commitment to going all the way. Sep 18, 2018 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Even at their most tonally awkward and clumsily soundtracked, Dolan's films can't help but be watchable, the phoniness of the hopped-up style melting away in the face of his performers' commitment to going all the way.
Angelo Muredda
A baffling screenplay in which all the characters speak in the same, pretentious voice, stylistically vapid direction and non-existent drama add up to a fatal verdict. Sep 17, 2018 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
A baffling screenplay in which all the characters speak in the same, pretentious voice, stylistically vapid direction and non-existent drama add up to a fatal verdict.
Christopher Machell
A baffling exercise in taking real issues and genuine emotional experiences and (seemingly due to some misplaced anxiety) deploying them in service of pure vanity. Sep 17, 2018 | Rating: D | Full Review…
A baffling exercise in taking real issues and genuine emotional experiences and (seemingly due to some misplaced anxiety) deploying them in service of pure vanity.
Josh Lewis
The film wants to be taken seriously, its earnestness only ever fleetingly successful at being a critique of our perception of it. Sep 16, 2018 | Rating: C- | Full Review…
The film wants to be taken seriously, its earnestness only ever fleetingly successful at being a critique of our perception of it.
Chris Feil
Xavier Dolan's film is a mess, maybe even a hot one, and I can't say I had a bad time watching it-which is not the same thing as suggesting it works. Sep 13, 2018 | Full Review…
Xavier Dolan's film is a mess, maybe even a hot one, and I can't say I had a bad time watching it-which is not the same thing as suggesting it works.
Adam Nayman
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