Sacramento
Vertical Entertainment | Release Date: April 11, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
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2
Negative:
0
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80
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleApr 14, 2025
The film explores what’s funny — and terrifyingly truthful — about being wrenched into adulthood. Read full review
80
ColliderAidan KelleyJan 7, 2025
Its relatable story is what really makes Sacramento a film that's worth revisiting again and again for its charming fable about the price of friendship and fatherhood. Read full review
80
SlashfilmJeremy MathaiJun 10, 2024
Sacramento is film that knows exactly how to transcend the sum of its parts. Read full review
75
Original-CinChris KnightApr 10, 2025
Sacramento is a well-made, well-acted comedy drama that does just about everything right and almost nothing unexpected. Read full review
75
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJun 10, 2024
Running eightysomething minutes with credits, “Sacramento” never aspires to be much more than an incisively rendered sketch, but its casual nature and outward lack of ambition belie how well it manages to convey the terror that change brings into our lives, the mania of trying to deny it, and the relief that comes from recognizing that someone else in your world is changing with you. Read full review
70
VarietyOwen GleibermanApr 14, 2025
Angarano has the showpiece role, but it’s Cera who proves himself, more than ever, to be a major actor. Read full review
70
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerJun 18, 2024
Stewart and Erskine, on the other hand, are doing work so lived-in, so much more shaded than the nagging wife/girlfriend figures that typically orbit male immaturity narratives, that it’s hard not to wish the movie were about them instead. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJun 10, 2024
The standout moments in Sacramento highlight behavioral and conversational quirks of old friendships, in scenes that recall the drollness of Joanna Arnow’s recent The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed. Read full review
67
The PlaylistMarshall ShafferJun 10, 2024
It’s a perceptive film about the way men of a certain age act around each other. (Which, is to say, like boys.) Read full review
63
Washington PostTy BurrApr 10, 2025
It takes its sweet and sour time getting there, but eventually “Sacramento” finds a satisfying seriocomic groove in the plight of men facing the prospect of fatherhood and realizing adulthood has to come along for the ride. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineRoss McIndoeApr 7, 2025
The film’s strength is that it knows how to keep things moving. Read full review
60
TheWrapElizabeth WeitzmanJun 10, 2024
Though his slim script (co-written with Chris Smith) holds few surprises, Angarano’s direction is consistently confident. He paces this minor tale wisely, getting in and out of the characters’ small stories in a perfectly-timed 84 minutes. Read full review
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RogerEbert.comNell MinowApr 11, 2025
Stewart and Erskine light up the movie with vivid, layered, authentic performances that capture our interest but throw the movie out of balance. One more screenplay draft would have been worthwhile; there are glimmers of a better version that create some optimism for Angarano’s next film. Read full review
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