Miss Meadows
Entertainment One | Release Date: November 14, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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4
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5
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniNov 11, 2014
Holmes and Dale are ideal together, turning a polite courtship and charged relationship (including a sex scene that's both giddy and profound) into a twisted, compelling expression of unconditional love. Read full review
70
The DissolveTasha RobinsonNov 13, 2014
Holmes’ performance helps Miss Meadows considerably: It’s so relentlessly upbeat and deliberately artificial that it admits no cynicism or judgment, and it makes the film daringly weird. Read full review
63
USA TodayBrian TruittNov 13, 2014
It exists somewhere between serious character study and satirical fish-out-of-water story, never figuring out which it wants to be. Read full review
63
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreNov 11, 2014
Writer-director Karen Leigh Hopkins has lots of fun with this surreal set up, and only really loses the thread when reality intrudes. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNicolas RapoldNov 13, 2014
The dark comedy (punctuated by the catchphrase “Toodle-oo”) doesn’t always come off, and the filmmaking is more off-kilter than necessary, with capricious camerawork and pacing. Read full review
50
VarietyDennis HarveyNov 13, 2014
An eventual retreat into conventional thriller terrain isn’t managed with much panache or tension, and a limp happily-ever-after sequence underlines the pic’s failure to make very much of the twisted-fairy-tale aspect that is its most distinctive element. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineTomas HachardNov 10, 2014
Perhaps Karen Leigh Hopkins's intent was to subtly suggest the surreal aspects of the story, but ultimately she underplays her hand. Read full review
40
The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckNov 13, 2014
Director-screenwriter Hopkins is unsuccessful in navigating the absurd storyline’s jarring tonal shifts, with the result that this kinder, gentler variation on Ms. 45 mainly emerges as off-puttingly bizarre. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNov 13, 2014
When writer and director are one and the same, there’s always a risk that the project will suffer from a lack of perspective. Indeed, in helming her blackly comic indie Miss Meadows, Karen Leigh Hopkins fails to fulfill the potential of her own script. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleNov 13, 2014
Besides never knowing where to stick a camera, or how long a given scene should last, Hopkins quickly ditches any potentially subversive joy in her cartoon vigilante by saddling her with a redemptive love story opposite James Badge Dale's kind-eyed sheriff. Read full review
25
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperNov 20, 2014
This is one of the most irritating movies of the year. Read full review
25
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyNov 14, 2014
The earnestness brings the movie from mildly irritating pastiche status to actively awful, and that is all she wrote. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloNov 13, 2014
What makes Miss Meadows egregiously awful is that it has no perspective whatsoever on vigilante justice. As an ostensible work of satire, it lacks bite, never truly questioning or complicating its heroine’s actions; the film isn’t even outrageous enough to be appalling (which paradoxically makes it appalling). Read full review
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