Choose Me
Island Alive | Release Date: August 29, 1984 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
There is hardly a moment in the whole film when I knew for sure what was going to happen next, yet I didn’t feel manipulated; I felt as if the movie were giving itself the freedom to be completely spontaneous. Read full review
80
Washington PostPaul Attanasio
Choose Me holds up the mirror, not only to its own characters, but to the conundrums of '80s life. Read full review
80
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Structured like a farce but filmed like a Qaalude dream, this marvelously performed fairy tale packs a lot of style into its minuscule budget. [19 Nov 1984, p.135]
80
Time OutStaff (Not Credited)
Often very funny as well as gorgeous to look at in its ineffable blend of realism and rhapsody, it comes on a little like a free jazz improvisation on the vulnerability of the human heart to the ecstasies and disenchantments that attend it in permanent orbit. Read full review
75
Chicago ReaderDave Kehr
Rudolph’s off-center characterizations and looping dramatic rhythms keep the tone complex and varied, and the film has a lovely choreographed quality that’s only slightly marred by some indifferent cinematography. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldBill Cosford
Perhaps Rudolph is sending out a message about love, a la Rohmer, or maybe he's just having a strange kind of fun. Choose Me is just entertaining enough, in its eccentric, soap- operatic way, so that it doesn't matter. [21 Dec 1984, p.D22]
70
The New York TimesJanet Maslin
If the film sometimes gives the impression of too much talent in the service of too little, that talent is evident all the same. Read full review
70
The New YorkerPauline Kael
It's giddy in a magical, pseudo-sultry way -- it seems to be set in a poet's dream of a red-light district.
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