Me and You and Everyone We Know
IFC Films | Release Date: June 17, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
76
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
32
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Definition eludes the delicate pleasures of this marvelous, idiosyncratic movie collage. Read full review
100
PremierePeter Debruge
Every so often, a movie blindsides you, leaving you feeling different, enlightened, possibly even improved. Me and You and Everyone We Know is such a movie. Read full review
100
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
By turns comic and tender, tragic and absurd. But throughout, it gives off what is surely one of the greatest of moviegoing pleasures -- the sense of an artist seeing the world from some private vantage that is as original as it is truthful. Read full review
100
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
A film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic. Read full review
100
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Totally original yet filled with familiar human frailties, "Everyone" leaps off the screen to become one of those rare movie-going experiences. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
Optimistic and humanistic to the core, Me and You and Everyone We Know is a paean to perseverance and finding ways to cope. Read full review
90
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
It seems quite possible that Me and You marks the arrival of an artist who may affect--disturbingly yet helpfully--films and audiences to come. Read full review
88
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Performance artist Miranda July hits a grand slam as the writer, director and star of her first film. It's a moonbeam romance laced with startling wit and gravity. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneAllison Benedikt
It's a familiar dance, but something only July could invent, a vignette much like her characters: beautiful, flawed, organic--fine alone but better with the others. Read full review
88
Boston GlobeTy Burr
Remarkably, ''Me and You" doesn't shock so much as soothe. Read full review
88
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Although Me and You and Everyone We Know requires patience on the part of the viewer - to get past the faux naivete of its grown-up characters, to get past its deadpan arty tone - Miranda July's feature debut is worth the time. Read full review
88
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
Disturbing, maddening, often confusing, but also charming, engaging and challenging in all the best ways. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
A playfully offbeat, willfully wide-eyed tale of lonely, inarticulate people looking for connection in a disconnected world. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
Refreshing and disorienting movie. Read full review
80
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
A quirkily funny, startlingly assured comedy-drama. Read full review
80
The New York TimesDana Stevens
Though her movie has a clear narrative line, and might even be classified as romantic comedy, it is also a meticulously constructed visual artifact, diffidently introducing the playful, rebus-like qualities of installation art to the conventions of narrative cinema. Read full review
80
SlateDavid Edelstein
Admirable and wondrously strange--as well as gorgeous, funny, dreamlike, mesmerizing, squirmy, and occasionally annoying. Read full review
80
Wall Street JournalJoe Morgenstern
The distinction of this lovely, if slightly tentative, debut feature is its willingness to set forth mysteries of the human heart without solving them; everyone's fate stays unsealed.
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Hums with compassion for its outlandish, lonely but always sweet characters. Read full review
80
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
A wise, funny film about the little leaps of faith it takes to just get through the day. Read full review
80
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Has a flavor all its own-sweet, whimsical, homegrown. A quirky romantic for the 21st century, July finds humor and magic in places where no one has looked before. Read full review
80
EmpireLiz Beardsworth
A frank look at 21st century mores, this succeeds in saying new things about anxieties as old as the human race. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Offbeat, daring, and the kind of offering Hollywood will never come close to embracing. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
A mixed package, but often fun to watch. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Leah McLaren
Will make you glad to be living on the same planet as Miranda July. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJonathan Rosenbaum
These characters are touching and sympathetic to the extent that they're lonely, and that's what most of them are most of the time. Read full review
70
Film ThreatDaniel Wible
A real treasure in the guise of yet another Sundance dramedy. Read full review
70
VarietyScott Foundas
Brings a fresh perspective to age-old human dilemmas. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJessica Winter
July's witty ode to only-connecting sustains a delicate tone of pensive whimsy. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley Jones
July sees the world in a most unexpected way, and it's a shame that Me and You's preciousness sometimes overwhelms that uniqueness of vision. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike Clark
There are some notable oddballs in the filmmaking debut of performance artist Miranda July, whose lead performance in this Sundance winner for "originality" is the most appealing thing about it. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
Me and You and Everyone We Know brings to mind the work of happily downbeat, bad-boy provocateur Todd Solondz (Happiness, Palindromes), but July is more kind to her oddballs, although she displays a disturbing aptitude for perversity that Solondz would applaud. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The result is discomfiting, funny and oddly touching. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
A hit-and-miss affair. It has moments of unexpected, offbeat comedy, but most of the time neither the characters nor the situations engage the viewer. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
A vanity project by a moderately talented artist that has moments of real brilliance in it. Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Me and You takes a couple of neat swipes at the pretentiousness of the art scene, but as a commentary on the difficulty of connecting in contemporary society, it's too precious by half. Read full review
50
The New YorkerAnthony Lane
Just creepy and unsavory at moments, but pleased to be so. Read full review
50
Dallas ObserverJean Oppenheimer
As an actress, she (July) is annoying as hell, with a quirkiness so labored, she seems to be begging for our affection. As a director she is much better. Read full review
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