Frankie and Johnny Are Married
IFC Films | Release Date: May 26, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
5
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
The result is a funny, tender, satisfying blend of fiction and cinema vérité. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleCarla Meyer
Self-indulgent and admirable. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKevin Thomas
A bittersweet, wryly amusing "dramatic fiction" Read full review
60
Village VoiceAkiva Gottlieb
Successfully amalgamates Henry Jaglom's Hollywood-home-movie aesthetic, ego-skewering satire, and a measured understanding of the kinship between love and risk. Read full review
60
The New York TimesDave Kehr
Good-natured, mildly appealing video feature. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Pressma's intermittently amusing screenplay, some good-natured cameos by a bunch of his famous friends, and an intelligent performance by Chess — playing herself opposite TV regular Alan Rosenberg -- save the day and the relationship. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis Harvey
Beyond the participants' friends and co-workers, it's hard to imagine an audience for this professionally packaged exercise in navel gazing. Read full review
40
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
A vanity project about a vanity project. Read full review
38
New York PostMegan Lehmann
Self-indulgent folly. Read full review
25
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The only metatwist missing in the twittering self-regard of this indulgent home movie is the participation of a documentary video crew -- ideally helmed by some TV exec's USC-grad son -- shooting the filmmakers shooting the play within the play. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
The resulting movie is a nauseating flight of Hollywood navel-gazing. Read full review
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