Funny Pages
A24 | Release Date: August 26, 2022 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
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Generally favorable reviews based on 32 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreAug 26, 2022
A debut as packed with promise as with underdeveloped ideas. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangAug 25, 2022
Funny Pages itself sometimes feels like an exercise in misplaced artistry, a student’s overly precocious stab at brutish cynicism. Its biggest laughs, which tend to go hand-in-hand with its meanest jolts, seem to arise less from any recognizable emotional or situational reality than from a filmmaker’s desire to shock and humiliate his characters, to put them repeatedly through the wringer. Read full review
50
TimeStephanie ZacharekAug 29, 2022
Funny Pages still feels slight and only vaguely shaped. Well-observed details are great, but they’ll only take you so far. Read full review
50
VarietyOwen GleibermanJun 8, 2022
What is doesn’t have, oddly, is any sort of bone-deep reality factor. Almost nothing that happens in Funny Pages is particularly believable. Read full review
40
The New YorkerRichard BrodyAug 24, 2022
Whatever sense of obsession drives Robert’s art and whatever emotional freedom inspires Miles’s, neither is found in the cinematic aesthetic of “Funny Pages”; the movie is merely a conventional vessel for Kline’s ardent ideas, which pass through the cinema without leaving a trace. Read full review
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