Giants Being Lonely
Gravitas Ventures | Release Date (Streaming): April 6, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 9 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
1
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
84
TheWrapWilliam BibbianiSep 14, 2019
It’s immediate and specific and painful and impressive. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comNell MinowApr 6, 2021
Familiar, even universal issues of growing up, identity, and intimacy are presented with a lyrical, dreamlike tone. Read full review
68
Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganApr 5, 2021
While this suspension of narrative convention is a welcome deviation from the cut-and-dry formula of many coming-of-age films, Giants Being Lonely stops just short of actually saying something salient. Read full review
67
The PlaylistChristian GallichioSep 14, 2019
Everything is subtext, as scenes float by with little grounding or purpose outside of compositional beauty. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreApr 10, 2021
The obvious artifice doesn’t change the film’s essential adolescent truth. High school is all about “being lonely.” Read full review
60
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 6, 2021
The film asks us to indulge and share the privacy of its characters. That’s its moody, free-floating allure. Read full review
60
Screen DailyTim GriersonSep 14, 2019
Giants Being Lonely may not add much to the landscape of coming-of-age dramas, yet the preciseness of its impressionism results in a striking atmosphere of hormones and vulnerability. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschSep 14, 2019
Even when it grows too enamored of its own lyrical driftiness, there’s undeniable skill in Patterson’s use of space, color and sound. The movie might have worked as a mood piece; at times it almost does. Read full review
20
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergApr 6, 2021
Nothing concrete emerges from this haze of oblique editing and barely written scenes, acted by cast members who are not up to making the dialogue sound convincing or filling the voids left in place of their characters. Read full review
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