Alone Together
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: July 22, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 14 Critic Reviews
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6
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6
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75
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperJul 29, 2022
Writer-director-star Katie Holmes perfectly captures those early pandemic days in the occasionally heartbreaking and mostly sweet and lovely romantic drama Alone Together. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubLuke Y. ThompsonJul 19, 2022
While we may soon tire of movies using the pandemic as a narrative catalyst (if we haven’t already), Katie Holmes’ Alone Together feels vitally of-the-moment at a time when so many films are ignoring the poignancy of that moment altogether. Read full review
70
The New York TimesTeo BugbeeJul 21, 2022
Its simplicity and lack of cinematic fancy strikes a tone of surprising relief. Read full review
70
We Got This CoveredMartin CarrJul 19, 2022
Billed as a lockdown love story, Alone Together is more than the sum of those parts. Offering writer director Katie Holmes a perfect platform to deliver, something intimately personal with political undertones. Substance and subtlety with this subject matter is rare, so give this some attention. Read full review
65
TheWrapMartin TsaiJun 16, 2022
Alone Together frequently hints at Holmes’ gifts as a storyteller, so it’s disappointing that she has a proclivity for romance-novel fodder. If she could have workshopped the script somewhere and honed in on authentic feelings outside conventional narratives, she has the potential to be taken more seriously as a filmmaker. Read full review
62
Paste MagazineAurora AmidonJul 20, 2022
Despite its flaws, Alone Together turns out to be quite poignant, and gets around to conveying a truly optimistic message. It’s a film about following your heart and your dreams, and daring to be yourself no matter what people think of you. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJun 17, 2022
Predictable but sweet. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comNell MinowJul 22, 2022
Luke and the other actors do their best, especially Zosia Mamet as June’s friend and Melissa Leo as Charlie’s mother, but the dialogue never creates vivid, specific, consistent characters. Read full review
50
Screen RantFerdosa AbdiJul 22, 2022
With so many people and life going back to some semblance of normalcy, Alone Together may feel slightly too late, but Holmes' film offers something worth engaging with. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJul 19, 2022
Tenderly-conceived, tastefully-directed, handsomely-mounted and prestigiously-cast, its a drama that runs up against the wall of over-familiarity and the ceiling of expectations. Even without being the umpteenth version of this sort of film to come out, it’s pretty bland going. Read full review
50
IndieWireSamantha BergesonJun 16, 2022
Alone Together has the momentum of a reclamation of sorts, but the plot tries to do too much, say too much, when it really should just be about love. Who cares if it’s formulaic or not? In the middle of this pandemic, maybe being something we can rely on is a good thing. Read full review
40
VarietyMichael NordineJul 27, 2022
The film’s low-key charms, such as they are, aren’t restrained by adherence to formula so much as its myopic worldview. Read full review
33
The Film StageJared MobarakJul 21, 2022
The only way this play at “bringing a sense of joy and optimism during a time of great fear and loss” (as she states in her brief, platitude-heavy, 68-word director’s statement) could be more tone-deaf is if she waited to reveal it was set during the first few weeks of the pandemic in 2020 for a third-act rug pull. Read full review
25
The PlaylistJason BaileyJun 15, 2022
It’s tempting to take it easy on Alone Together, because harsh criticism feels somewhat cruel – it’s just such a gosh-darned nice movie, about two nice people who meet up and are nice to each other. But this is one tepid piece of work, a story of bland people doing and saying bland things as the world burns around them. Read full review
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