Coming Through The Rye
Samuel Goldwyn Films | Release Date: October 14, 2016 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
64
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
TheWrapTricia OlszewskiOct 13, 2016
Despite its missteps, Coming Through the Rye is a sweet and inviting road trip. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberSep 22, 2016
Cooper seizes control of the movie when he’s onscreen, but the two young leads are also enormously appealing. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireOct 14, 2016
Coming Through the Rye may be the closest we’ll ever get cinematically to the novel. And in being so far away from it, it’s close enough. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedOct 12, 2016
Special praise goes to Alex Wolff as Jamie and Stefania Owen as his sympathetic, agreeable girlfriend Dee Dee, and veteran actor Chris Cooper makes a complex but astonishingly convincing cameo as the great Jerome David Salinger himself. I went to Coming Through the Rye expecting nothing and left feeling enriched, enlightened and warm all over. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenOct 20, 2016
Sadwith, whose TV credits include the miniseries “Sinatra,” conjures a few memorable moments in his big-screen debut. But the most stirring moment belongs to Cooper, who turns a barely audible, exasperated sigh into a complicated life story. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAndy WebsterOct 13, 2016
As Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his literary offspring. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakOct 13, 2016
It’s not a perfect film...but it’s one that resonates for anyone who’s ever been touched by a book, movie, painting, or song and had their world shift into something it wasn’t before. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 11, 2016
Writer/director James Steven Sadwith’s autobiographical coming-of-age film doesn’t have a lot of originality to it, in spite of the nearly-unique nature of his youthful encounter with the Great Writer. But Cooper’s turn gives it weight and life. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBarbara VanDenburghNov 3, 2016
The danger in making a movie like Coming Through the Rye is in the constant referencing and hero worship of bigger, better, towering works of art — you can only exist in their shadows and pale all the more for the comparison. Read full review
50
Boston GlobePeter KeoughOct 27, 2016
Ironically, the phoniness that iconic teen romantic Holden Caulfield despised pervades Jim Sadwith’s Coming through the Rye, a semi-autobiographical tale of hero worship and literary integrity. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNick SchagerOct 13, 2016
Regardless of its capable performances and understated direction, and no matter that it was inspired by Sadwith’s own hunt for Salinger, Coming Through the Rye comes across as a cute conceit incapable of sustaining a substantial feature. Read full review
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