Adult Life Skills
Screen Media Films | Release Date: January 18, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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5
Mixed:
8
Negative:
2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
EmpireJonathan PileJun 27, 2016
Witty and moving, this is a low-budget Brit triumph that marks its director as a talent to watch. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshJan 17, 2019
While Adult Life Skills could often use more focus, it digs deep to achieve a sense of catharsis, and as a woman who's trying to be invisible, but can't isolate herself forever, Whittaker (currently the Doctor on “Doctor Who”) carries the film. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloJan 18, 2019
Whittaker’s performance finds a balance between the tragic and comic scenarios her character experiences. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJan 17, 2019
The only reason Adult Life Skills is getting attention in 2019, nearly three years after it was finished, is because lead actress Jodie Whittaker is now bigger than big. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreDec 30, 2018
The main reason people check this out will be Whittaker’s new role as Doctor Who. And she doesn’t disappoint. She gives this walking-wounded woman a hint of the coquette she never realized she was, a smartness informed by sadness and — with a little boy she’s utterly ill-qualified to baby sit, much less mentor — a purpose. Read full review
60
CineVueMatthew AndersonJun 23, 2016
It is a kooky, touching, continually droll comedy drama that treads simultaneously familiar and unusual ground in its exploration of grieving for a sibling, more specifically a twin. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonCath ClarkeJun 20, 2016
How much you love this low-budget British effort will depend on your tolerance to quirkiness. Read full review
50
Film ThreatAlan NgJan 22, 2019
I found myself just not engaging with the lead characters and storyline as much as I like. In the end, I was just observing people dealing with a problem, while never able to be in the story as it played out. Read full review
50
The PlaylistWarren CantrellJan 18, 2019
Interesting, funny, yet thin where it matters most, Tunnard’s film is nevertheless a good indication of promising work ahead. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJan 17, 2019
While its protagonist is believably eccentric, the people surrounding her look more like transparent plot devices the more of them we meet. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleWalter AddiegoJan 16, 2019
A relentlessly quirky British comedy-drama that demonstrates why more is not always more. Read full review
40
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJan 17, 2019
Anna feels more like a device than a person, a collection of eccentric behaviors (her job involves counting molehills) that support an aesthetic of excessive cuteness. Read full review
40
VarietyNick SchagerJan 14, 2019
For the most part, the film is similarly content to repeat the past, all the way through to its predictable liberating-feel-good wrap-up. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineDerek SmithJan 15, 2019
The film uses the grieving process to lend the proceedings a sense of unearned emotional gravitas. Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedJan 18, 2019
The result is 96 minutes of excessive eccentricity and unfocused gibberish that seems like 96 days at hard labor with no hope for commercial success. Color it gone. Read full review
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