Forgetting the Girl
RAM Releasing | Release Date: October 11, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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80
Los Angeles TimesAnnlee EllingsonOct 10, 2013
Written with a poet's ear and directed with an artist's eye, Forgetting the Girl plumbs the psyche of an unassuming studio photographer. Read full review
70
VarietyJoe LeydonOct 10, 2013
First-time feature helmer Nate Taylor, working from an adroitly constructed screenplay by Peter Moore Smith, skillfully evokes a clammy sense of dread in this stealthily suspenseful indie. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckOct 13, 2013
While only sporadically effective in its attempt at creating a modern-day Psycho, Forgetting the Girl does manage to sustain a sufficiently disturbing mood that is not easily forgotten. Read full review
60
The New York TimesDavid DeWittOct 10, 2013
Its characterizations may be overwrought — it is a thriller, after all — and the audience might prefer to have sympathy for a character without being practically told to feel it. But the acting is strong. Read full review
42
The PlaylistGabe ToroOct 15, 2013
Forgetting the Girl ends up building towards a massive revelation, one that suddenly gives up the ghost and allows the film to define itself as one specific genre. Not romance or thriller or comedy, mind you, but that type of indie that plays peek-a-boo with its topics for long enough before springing something that allows the final twenty minutes to be occupied by bargain-basement pop psychology. Read full review
30
The DissolveMike D'AngeloOct 8, 2013
First-time director Nate Taylor, who has a background in editing, gives Forgetting The Girl impressive technical polish, but the performances he gets from his young, unknown cast are strictly amateur-hour. Read full review
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