Golden Exits
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: February 9, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
72
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Generally favorable reviews based on 21 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Village VoiceDanny KingFeb 8, 2018
The more microscopic and incidental the movie gets — as in this candlelit conversation — the grander its cumulative force becomes. Read full review
100
Slant MagazineChuck BowenFeb 4, 2018
Alex Ross Perry's characters are shrewd enough to recognize the irrational contours of their lives, which they diagnose and chew over in some of the most inventive, twisty, and richly ironic dialogue in modern American cinema. Read full review
100
Screen DailyAnthony KaufmanJan 28, 2017
Golden Exits is an idiosyncratic film about little moments of human pain and loneliness. There’s jealousy, sadness, unfulfilled loves and lives, all of it relayed in quiet conversations and glances, rather than big dramatic scenes. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangFeb 15, 2018
This exquisitely textured ensemble portrait is a gentler, more forgiving piece of work, not least because the filmmaker's jabs — and his sympathies, such as they are — feel more evenly distributed. Read full review
90
The New York TimesManohla DargisFeb 8, 2018
Mr. Perry is such a good filmmaker that he can make the embarrassing and the unbearable insistently, fascinatingly engrossing (and often funny). Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyJan 28, 2017
The unstated angst, desire, suspicion, frustration and emotional turmoil is almost entirely expressed by Keegan DeWitt’s extraordinary musical score, which runs like an underground river through this elegant and supremely expressive gem of a film. Read full review
85
The AtlanticDavid SimsFeb 12, 2018
This is a movie that deserves to be seen—it’s a work of maturity and confidence from one of the indie world’s best young directors. Read full review
83
The Film StageJordan RaupJan 28, 2017
Considering how Perry intricately carves out the understated instincts of each of these characters, it’s easily his most humane and emotionally complex film. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzFeb 15, 2018
It’s not quite the triumph that the exquisitely excruciating “Listen Up Philip” was, but it’s another example of Perry’s behavioral alchemy that’s well worth checking out. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Emily YoshidaFeb 8, 2018
There aren’t a lot of people to necessarily sympathize with here, but the collective swell of a thousand nagging disappointments, both identifiable and not, make Perry’s film strangely haunting despite the bourgeois mundanity of its events. Read full review
80
CineVuePatrick GambleFeb 15, 2017
An exquisitely rendered study of entitlement and millennial dissatisfaction. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeJan 28, 2017
Many will accuse Perry of navel-gazing here, but that’s partly the point: Golden Exits means to frustrate, even to abrade, in its coolly articulate portrait of cosseted people who want for nothing and vaguely desire everything. Read full review
75
Rolling StoneDavid FearFeb 14, 2018
You inherently felt that he had incredible work in him if you could simply wait out his enfant terrible phase. Golden Exits is the first of Perry's people-behaving-badly pieces to start to make good on that promise. Read full review
67
IndieWireKate ErblandJan 28, 2017
With his intimacy drama Golden Exits, Perry strays from his typical fare of people behaving badly to, well, people behaving not quite as badly and certainly with more believable motivation. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzFeb 9, 2018
Golden Exits made me want to get up and go do something sensible and productive, so as to not be like the characters in the film. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 9, 2018
There’s pleasure to be had in seeing Brooklyn’s Carroll Gardens expertly used as a backdrop for bougie romantic frustrations. If you miss the JakeWalk, here’s your opportunity to see the bar revived as the perfect place for neurotic conversations; if you ever ambled down Smith Street in your own mess of emotions, you may be feeling this one. Read full review
42
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanFeb 8, 2018
While the actors do fight to find depth, their characters are consistently sketched in two dimensions. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 7, 2018
If Perry’s last film, the throwback psychodrama Queen Of Earth, used Bergman worship as a jumping off point for its own genre games, Golden Exits is just a tin-eared imitation: Interiors remade as a stilted exercise. Read full review
42
The PlaylistNoel MurrayJan 28, 2017
Only a filmmaker as talented as Alex Ross Perry could make a movie as misbegotten as Golden Exits. Read full review
40
Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpFeb 8, 2018
Coming from a first-timer, Golden Exits might suggest promise. Coming from Perry, it nearly reads as self-satire, the epitome of overly dry and thoroughly hubristic indie filmmaking. Don’t let the indulgent chatter fool you. Here, Perry has nothing to say that’s worth listening to. Read full review
30
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternFeb 8, 2018
I tried to buy into the characters, to enjoy the performances on their own terms, but no dice. I saw only performers who, with one conspicuous exception, were working hard to ignite a glum drama that declined to combust. Read full review
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