Pin Cushion
Cleopatra Entertainment | Release Date: July 20, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 8 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
0
Negative:
0
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83
The PlaylistElazar FineJun 1, 2018
Haywood brilliantly subverts her audience’s expectations at every step of the way. She introduces characters as tropes and steers them into the opposite direction. Read full review
80
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisJul 19, 2018
While Pin Cushion might prove too distressing for some, it’s still peculiarly, undeniably original. Read full review
80
EmpireIan FreerJul 16, 2018
Uneven in places, Pin Cushion nonetheless offers a moving meditation on what it feels like to be different, elevated by great work from Joanna Scanlan and newcomer Lily Newmark. Read full review
75
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 6, 2018
Deborah Haywood’s Pin Cushion is an easy film to laud, a hard one to warm up to. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubKatie RifeJun 1, 2018
Pin Cushion is as quirky and as prickly as its title, an unclassifiable dramedy about bullying and mother-daughter relationships that proposes that mean-girl behavior doesn’t go away after high school. Read full review
70
Village VoiceSerena DonadoniJul 19, 2018
Pin Cushion has the visual cues of comedy, with its candy-colored kitsch and exaggerated signifiers of eccentricity and snobbery, but at heart, it’s a tragedy of naïveté. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshJul 19, 2018
Scanlan is stunning as the odd but fiercely loving Lyn. She regards Iona warily, knowingly, seeing into her future and what she’s walking into, but with no way to stop it. Read full review
70
VarietyGuy LodgeJun 1, 2018
Cinematically, Pin Cushion goes all in on a heightened, macramé-and-macaroons aesthetic that occasionally smothers the rawer nerves of its storytelling. Read full review
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