I Melt with You
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: December 9, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
26
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
0
Negative:
10
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
New York PostKyle SmithDec 9, 2011
I still can't believe I Melt With You went there. Over the top, off the hook and just plain bonkers, it makes its mark. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 22, 2011
You know how I realized I actually liked I Melt With You? I kept talking about it, and at one point, in the middle of mocking it, I accidentally referred to it as "a good picture." That's when I realized, yes, it really is good, albeit in ways that are different from other movies. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDec 6, 2011
A compelling and disturbing drama about some elemental male issues. Read full review
35
MovielineMichelle OrangeDec 8, 2011
In another light the group's - and the film's - portentous resolution looks a lot like quitting, in true slacker style. Read full review
30
Village VoiceAaron HillisDec 6, 2011
Stylish cinematography and an awesome punk-and-new-wave soundtrack make the early, music-video-like montages of debauchery at least trashy entertainment, but the film's second half couldn't be more contemptible. Read full review
30
VarietyRobert KoehlerDec 6, 2011
A weekend romp for four middle-aged buddies devolves into a drug-fueled, suicidal hell in Mark Pellington's ill-conceived and executed I Melt With You, a work of extreme self-indulgence. Read full review
20
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 8, 2011
It almost seems unfair to mention that Carla Gugino shows up as a cop 80 minutes into these overlong proceedings; by then, viewers who walk out would never even have known that she was involved. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfDec 6, 2011
An excruciatingly awkward stab at generational sympathy, I Melt with You presents a quartet of thickening college buddies gathering at a Big Sur rental house to mourn their lost ambition. Read full review
16
The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayDec 7, 2011
A movie about self-absorbed douchebags that wallows in their douchebaggery. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineNick SchagerDec 4, 2011
The only thing more narcissistically indulgent than the film's repugnant protagonists is Mark Pellington's iPod-scored, visually flashy, thoroughly hollow directorial celebration of them. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen HoldenDec 8, 2011
When a sheriff's deputy (Carla Gugino) visits the house, I Melt With You turns into a ludicrous, cheap horror thriller that sheds any claims to integrity. By the end, you feel nothing, not even contempt. Read full review
0
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleDec 8, 2011
I Melt With You assuredly marks itself as one of 2011's most ludicrous releases. Read full review
0
ObserverRex ReedDec 7, 2011
A disastrous catalog of flaws, all accentuated by dilated, out-of-focus cinematography. The coke-snorting, booze-guzzling and vomiting add up to nearly two hours of frustration, anesthesia and pointless, self-indulgent excess. They should have called it "I Vomit With You." There's plenty of that too. Read full review
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