I'm Your Man
Bleecker Street Media | Release Date: September 24, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
78
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 26 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
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2
Negative:
0
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
91
PolygonRoxana HadadiSep 24, 2021
I’m Your Man offers a perspective on humanity that’s equally whimsical and melancholy, and its intimacy is a welcome change of pace in science fiction, a genre that too often mistakes violence and colonialism as the only drivers of drama. Read full review
90
TimeStephanie ZacharekSep 27, 2021
I’m Your Man is funny in such a gentle way that you may not realize how piercing it is until after the credits have rolled. Read full review
90
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternSep 23, 2021
The film is poetic in its turn, as well as deliciously funny, and pretty much perfect except for a slightly didactic coda. But that’s a minor flaw in a major achievement. To err, even slightly, is you know what. Read full review
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisSep 23, 2021
Edging now and then into the surreal, this unusual and tender little movie gingerly interrogates the gulf between digital and biological wiring. Read full review
90
Screen DailyWendy IdeMar 3, 2021
The set up promises a high concept romantic comedy, but in execution, Maria Schrader’s immensely enjoyable picture delves rather deeper, touching on philosophy, socio-sexual ethics and humanity’s uneasily symbiotic relationship with technology. Read full review
88
Slant MagazineWilliam RepassAug 31, 2021
The film’s disarming romcom sensibilities are an unlikely yet fitting vehicle for timely ruminations on AI. Read full review
83
Original-CinJim SlotekOct 13, 2021
I’m Your Man is certainly a metaphor for our increasingly intimate relationship with our own technology. Some have seen it as a direct reference to our intimacy with personae on social media, virtual relationships that exist at the expense of our connections with people in the real world. Whatever it is supposed to be, it is a smart and often witty take on a not exactly new sci-fi premise. Read full review
83
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 17, 2021
This is, perhaps, a movie easy to oversell. It earns a lot of goodwill simply by never devolving into a dumber version of itself, into what you might expect from a film featuring Dan Stevens as a sexy robot. But I’m Your Man’s charms are real, and steeped in a lightly inquisitive, even philosophical engagement with the meatier matters of smart science fiction and smart relationship drama. Read full review
83
The PlaylistElla KempMar 3, 2021
More than a sardonic subversion of the tropes we fall for time after time, Schrader’s thoughtful romantic study digs into mundane neuroses and existential fears with wisdom, and empathy, making sure to keep you guessing long after Alma and Tom have stopped gazing into each other’s eyes. Read full review
80
IGNKristy PuchkoSep 27, 2021
I’m Your Man promises Dan Stevens as a rom-com dreamboat, but what it delivers is far more intriguing and rewarding. Read full review
80
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshSep 23, 2021
The ending is ambiguous enough to be refreshingly un-clichéd. While “I’m Your Man” is very romantic in its own way, the movie is elevated by pondering not just love but life and our impending relationship to advanced artificial intelligence, a question that is surely already upon us. Read full review
80
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 23, 2021
Heartwarming, elegant, and often profound in its exploration of loneliness and human connection, I’m Your Man is exquisitely charming and smart. Read full review
80
The New YorkerAnthony LaneSep 20, 2021
Never, though, has the evolution of an automaton been depicted with the extensive grace and wit that Dan Stevens, speaking good German with a slight British accent, brings to I’m Your Man. Read full review
80
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeAug 14, 2021
It asks pertinent questions about loneliness and a world in which algorithms can know us better than our human partners ever will. Read full review
80
EmpirePamela HutchinsonAug 13, 2021
I’m Your Man is science-fiction with soul and a romance written for adults. Just like its mechanical hero, this tender film is attractive, smart and cunningly designed to win your heart. Read full review
80
The TelegraphRobbie CollinMar 12, 2021
A sensationally funny and gently science-fictional German rom-com. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterSheri LindenMar 4, 2021
This is a comedy that finds poetry in unexpected places: the ancient cuneiform that Alma studies, and the invented past that Tom concocts to explain their romance. With sly humor and no small ache, I'm Your Man asks if we really want our fantasies to come true, and what happens when we fall in love. Read full review
80
VarietyGuy LodgeMar 3, 2021
Taking inspiration from a short story by German writer Emma Braslavsky, Schrader and co-writer Jan Schomburg serve up a rich panoply of questions, answers and stray ideas. Rarely are these assembled into neat combinations, even if the script veers too far into thematic explication in the final third. Read full review
78
Paste MagazineTara Bennett Sep 27, 2021
German director Maria Schrader almost achieves that sweet spot with I’m Your Man, but gets a little muddled in her storytelling in the last minutes. That doesn’t take away from her subtle and mature study of loneliness and intimacy via technology. Read full review
75
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeSep 24, 2021
The rom-com veneer acts as the sugar that lets the film’s more serious medicine go down, and Schrader understands this territory well. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 15, 2021
I’m Your Man may not break the mold, but it operates within it with confidence and grace. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 10, 2021
Director Maria Schrader’s new sci-fi-tinged rom-com might be conventionally structured, but it is also smoothly crowd-pleasing work, tackling all the anxieties and neuroses of midlife romance with the fears and promises of next-generation technology. Read full review
75
The Film StageEd FranklMar 3, 2021
It would be churlish not to report that there are some laughs and profound moments to be discovered here. Read full review
67
IndieWireEric KohnMar 3, 2021
Tonally, the movie often struggles to sort out whether it’s a disarming romcom or a straight drama, leading to some listless passages. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanSep 21, 2021
It’s a heady dramedy, albeit without terribly many tears or laughs, except those that arise, perhaps unintentionally, from the incongruity of Stevens being repellent. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawAug 12, 2021
I was disappointed with a film whose crises and dilemmas seem laborious and essentially predictable; it does not fully work as sci-fi or satire or comedy. Read full review
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