Jonathan
Well Go USA Entertainment | Release Date: November 16, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
62
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The PlaylistWarren CantrellNov 15, 2018
Elgort does great work juggling what is essentially a dual performance, while Oliver, making his feature directorial debut, here, keeps things clipping along at a taut, engaging pace. Small in scope, yet successful in just about every aspect of its unspooling, Jonathan stands tall. Read full review
81
The VergeTasha RobinsonApr 27, 2018
In the end, it doesn’t feel like Jonathan fully commits to its own premise. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 16, 2018
The movie is not interested in wrapping things up via a “smash the mirror” epiphany. It’s to Oliver’s credit that he’s taken a more tough-minded than easily cathartic approach. And Ansel Elgort’s wonderful performance does appropriate honor to the ambiguity the movie is trucking in. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeApr 27, 2018
The debut feature succeeds thanks to a credibly bifurcated performance by star Ansel Elgort. Read full review
70
VarietyDennis HarveyApr 27, 2018
Taken on its own confidently crafted terms, Jonathan is an intelligent, absorbing tale that provides an impressive showcase for “Baby Driver” star Ansel Elgort. Read full review
67
The Film StageJared MobarakNov 15, 2018
For forty minutes we become intimately aware of Oliver’s sci-fi conceit through heightened emotions, visual puzzles, and potential betrayals. It’s the perfect set-up for a thriller built on exclusion and yet it becomes much more. Read full review
63
Slant MagazinePat BrownNov 11, 2018
The dichotomy represented by Jonathan and John is too clean for the film's exploration of a divided psyche to ever feel particularly complex. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNov 15, 2018
Jonathan is good enough for us to want it to be better. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenNov 15, 2018
While Elgort, whose big breakout role was in last year’s “Baby Driver,” does a decent job of delineating the two characters and Patricia Clarkson reliably comes through as their sympathetic doctor, the clinically distancing production never forms a meaningful bond with its audience. Read full review
50
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergNov 15, 2018
The movie, itself somewhat torn in sensibility, permits itself an easy out. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreNov 13, 2018
Jonathan plays like an intellectual puzzle that isn’t challenging enough, an acting exercise that has everything but emotional connection and a tour de force robbed of its force by just lying there, inert when it should be picking up steam, cold when the characters and scenario should be heating up. Read full review
40
TheWrapDan CallahanApr 27, 2018
Oliver makes sure that every scene in Jonathan is slow, earnest, tidy, and very cautious, and he pulls back from anything that might be too dramatic. Read full review
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