Fort Tilden
| Release Date: August 14, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
The A.V. ClubAdam NaymanAug 12, 2015
For all its exquisite theater-of-cruelty viciousness, Fort Tilden is finally a work of empathy about people whose own supplies are running on empty. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineChuck BowenAug 8, 2015
It elegantly evolves from an absurdist comedy into a remarkably wounded and uprooted story of friends who're beginning to tire of their shared social cocoons. Read full review
80
The New York TimesAndy WebsterAug 13, 2015
Rarely has a movie so humorously illustrated the meaning of “frenemy.” Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshAug 13, 2015
Fort Tilden is cringe-worthy but true. Maybe that's why it's so uncomfortable to watch. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireAug 14, 2015
Whether or not we’d like to admit it – they’re willing to say what the rest of us are thinking when they tactlessly open their mouths without a filter. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerMolly EichelAug 13, 2015
Comparisons to HBO's "Girls" will abound, but Fort Tilden has a more satirical bent than Lena Dunham's much-talked-about show. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartAug 12, 2015
They’re the ditziest, most solipsistic protagonists I’ve seen outside of a Neil LaBute project. Read full review
75
The PlaylistWilliam GossMar 14, 2014
What really sells both the fashionable remove and generational paralysis is the pairing of Elliott and McNulty, as they effortlessly establish a passive-aggressive relationship from the get-go that thrives in a constant state of reliably unreliable codependence. Read full review
70
Village VoiceChris PackhamAug 11, 2015
Allie and Harper are basically unlikable, but played with a light touch and just enough distance from their own unthinking cruelty to remain funny. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAug 7, 2015
The movie is broad and mean and for a while very funny, but even when it goes sour — when the world slaps them in the face for their sins — it doesn’t lose its momentum. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyMar 14, 2014
Fort Tilden, the debut feature co-written and directed by Sarah-Violet Bliss and Charles Rogers, showcases a satirical voice so dyspeptic it’s almost endearing, never letting the abrasive lead characters – or anyone else for that matter – off the hook for their self-absorbed entitlement. Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnMar 14, 2014
While frequently very funny and sustained by a pair of boldly unlikable female protagonists, Fort Tilden adopts the glorious stupidity of its stars, and echoes their gratingly obnoxious temperaments. Read full review
65
TheWrapInkoo KangAug 17, 2015
The film confidently switches gears into a moving character study of how life passes by while you’re busy looking like you don’t care. More interesting than the growing fissures in their friendship are the increasingly ruinous consequences of thoughtlessness as a way of life. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Nathalie AtkinsonSep 3, 2015
Real insecurities live deep beneath the frenemies’ cringe-worthy obliviousness, though all credit to the filmmakers for allowing their comeuppance to contain none of the empathy the girls deny everyone else. Read full review
60
VarietyAndrew BarkerMar 14, 2014
Its potent sense of place and underlying ideas never compensate for the tiresome millennial musings that constitute most of its runtime. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreAug 11, 2015
It’s like “Girls” with more funky New York locations, but with less sex, and with fewer laughs. Read full review
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