Close to You
Greenwich Entertainment | Release Date: August 16, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
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5
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12
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
85
Film ThreatMichael Talbot-HaynesAug 30, 2024
Close To You is ultra-real, ultra-important, ultra-fascinating, and ultra-recommended. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzAug 16, 2024
It’s raw and often powerful—less of a carefully shaped drama than the equivalent of a series of boxes filled with explosive material being slung about. Read full review
70
The Irish TimesTara BradyAug 29, 2024
Page’s closeness to the material grafts a fascinating biographical dimension to this intimate drama. The story may lack conflict and clout. But it’s great to see Page back on the big screen. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeAug 1, 2024
Page’s performance isn’t moving merely for whatever parallels it might hold to his life: Rather, it’s a reminder of what a deft and perceptive actor he can be, capable of both naked emotional candor and acidic wit — both assets to a script that sometimes errs on the side of caution. Read full review
67
IndieWireKate ErblandAug 1, 2024
Close to You is rife with real emotion, but the gap between vulnerability and meaning keeps everyone at arm’s length. Read full review
60
EmpireElla KempSep 4, 2024
Page shines bright in an otherwise formulaic story, but this is still a thoughtful, sensitive portrait of a young man coming to terms with his sense of self and the love he deserves. Read full review
60
Time OutHelen O'HaraAug 22, 2024
Savage directs with a light hand, and sometimes you wish for a little more shape to the baggier scenes. Read full review
60
ABC NewsPeter TraversAug 16, 2024
The mostly improvised drama about a trans man reuniting with his family can feel clumsy and contrived, but it soars on waves of raw feeling thanks to the deeply felt, deeply moving performance of Elliot Page in a role he wears like a second skin. Read full review
60
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyAug 1, 2024
While we understand Sam’s back story and present situation, we too rarely get a sense of who he is when not struggling against misunderstanding and harsh weather. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 18, 2024
Close to You can be appreciated for its frank depicton of the post-hormone and surgery body and life of a transgender man no longer tormented by the confusion and self-loathing of gender dysphoria. But the story Savage and Page chose to tell with Page’s new reality can seem trite and melodramatic. Read full review
50
Screen RantKate BoveAug 16, 2024
While Page’s beautifully nuanced and searingly felt performance will stick with me, the movie as a whole feels like something I watched through a window myself — one with frosted-over panes that, try as I might, I couldn’t scrape clean for a clearer, closer view of the story playing out on my screen. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNatalia WinkelmanAug 16, 2024
As attentive as Close to You is to family dynamics, its dialogue, which the actors largely improvised, rarely achieves verisimilitude. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedAug 13, 2024
Part of the problem with Close to You is Hillary Baack, who plays Katherine. Miscast and inexperienced, she is not up to Page’s standards and mumbles so incoherently that whole scenes clumsily pass by without clarity. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeAug 1, 2024
The film yearns to capture the stages of this emotional exhumation, but a clunky screenplay makes for a less affecting watch. Read full review
42
ColliderChase HutchinsonAug 1, 2024
All through the scattered experience, Page is a shining light. Every move he makes gives the film something greater that it is never able to grasp. Read full review
40
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeSep 1, 2024
It’s clearly a passion project for Page, so why then does his performance feel so lifeless and inert? Read full review
40
The GuardianBenjamin LeeAug 1, 2024
As a movie, Close to You feels too unfocused, a major win and a welcome return for Page yet an opportunity squandered. Read full review
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