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| Rialto Pictures | Release Date: October 6, 2023 |
Starring:
Christopher Shyer, Emilia Jones, Fred Melamed, Geraldine Viswanathan, Hope Davis, Isaac Powell, Isabella Rossellini, Josh Andrés Rivera, Liza Colón-Zayas, Liza Koshy, Melissa Lehman, Michael Gandolfini, Nicholas Braun
Summary:
College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the movie theater where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
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Jan 26, 2023
Jan 22, 2023
A hair-raising third act adds an unusual coda — one that I, after only one viewing, am still processing. The relief, however, is in the filmmakers’ approach to these tense scenes: Fogel and Ashford loosen their grip, at last trusting us to sit in our discomfort, draw our own conclusions and sharpen our tools for the discourse.
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IndieWire
Jan 22, 2023
While Susanna Fogel’s feature film version of the story is appropriately excruciating (this is a high compliment; mostly, it will set your teeth on edge and raise the hairs on the back of your neck, just as it should), its muddled, messy, and brand-new final act feels at odds with Roupenian’s story and the very emotions it raised with its readers.
The final word on “Cat Person” the film? Not nearly as biting and perfectly pitched as the story that inspired it: It’s good…enough. It could have been more.
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Jan 22, 2023
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Oct 26, 2023
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