She Came to Me
Belga Films | Release Date: October 6, 2023 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
53
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Mixed or average reviews based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
RogerEbert.comNell MinowOct 6, 2023
She Came to Me is beautifully performed and directed with great charm, unexpected wisdom, and sweetness. Read full review
83
ColliderMarco Vito OddoFeb 17, 2023
By appealing to the more casual moviegoer without losing the best things she brings to the table, Miller has birthed her best film yet. Read full review
80
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzOct 4, 2023
She Came to Me is overstuffed to be sure, but in an admirable way that underlines Miller’s fierce desire to enchant and entertain an audience looking for stories about people, not intellectual property. Read full review
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanFeb 18, 2023
We’re invited to laugh at what we’re seeing, yet Miller works in such a heartfelt and unassuming way that we’re never standing outside the quirks. Read full review
75
IndieWireKate ErblandFeb 18, 2023
It’s funny and strange and sometimes truly dark. Not all of it works or even coheres, but it also offers a fresh look at what love does to people, both on the big screen and out in the world. Read full review
70
The New York TimesLisa KennedyOct 5, 2023
Amid the roiling neuroses of the adults, the young beloveds provide the film with a surprising emotional ballast. Read full review
70
Screen DailyWendy IdeFeb 18, 2023
The combination of a first-rate cast, a rippling, frequently witty score and a highly-strung, madcap plot — which itself wouldn’t be out of place in a comic opera — makes for a quirky, offbeat spin on the relationship drama. Read full review
63
Washington PostAnn HornadayOct 3, 2023
She Came to Me exists in between things: airy romance and psychological depth; operatic fantasy and gritty reality; farce and fatalism. Writer-director Rebecca Miller executes that balancing act with lighthearted audacity in a film that aspires, with fitful success, to resurrect the lost art of screwball comedy — with some literal opera thrown in for musical measure. Read full review
60
Wall Street JournalZachary BarnesOct 6, 2023
The movie—consistently amusing, amiably performed and never really credible—concerns itself with questions of artistic inspiration, and one leaves it thinking that Ms. Miller has, at the very least, an eccentric muse. Read full review
60
The GuardianPeter BradshawFeb 18, 2023
It’s a likeable confection, and a pleasure to see Marisa Tomei on very good form. Read full review
58
The PlaylistRafaela Sales RossFeb 18, 2023
She Came to Me lacks the palpable chemistry of a rom-com and the sobering relatability of a Nicole Holofcener dramedy, but it does find moments of inspiration thanks to its A-lister cast. Read full review
50
Original-CinLiam LaceyOct 6, 2023
The film is, in a word, ostentatiously odd. Whether one finds it insightfully askew or laboriously quirky will be a matter of taste. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleJoshua KosmanOct 4, 2023
Miller pulls the various threads together at the end in a rush, like a college student dashing off the final pages of a term paper in the wee hours. But until then, she hops from one plotline to another, leaving the audience scratching their heads and waiting for another visit to the opera house. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 4, 2023
This is dicey material for a screwball comedy, even one with dark undertones, and despite the best efforts of the ensemble, She Came to Me drifts further and further away from anything approaching reality or relatability. Nearly every major character in this film is exhausting to be around and/or thinly drawn. Read full review
50
The Film StageDavid KatzFeb 18, 2023
Miller spreads herself too thin here by relying upon an even more sprawling ensemble of prestigious actors, among whom Brian d’Arcy James and especially Hathaway are the most awkwardly miscast. Read full review
40
TheWrapSimon AbramsFeb 18, 2023
The consistently disjointed ensemble dramedy She Came to Me never settles on a sensible tone to match its anxious, but well-meaning characters, most of whom are neither so ridiculous nor so tragic to be either laugh aloud funny or convincingly dramatic. Read full review
38
Slant MagazinePat BrownFeb 17, 2023
The fatal flaw of the film is that it genuinely believes in the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinOct 6, 2023
It’s only October but your Thanksgiving turkey has arrived. It’s called She Came to Me, a mishmash of flimsy, fanciful and far-fetched notions dressed up as a screwball New York rom-com. Given its pedigreed cast and filmmaker, the results are doubly sad. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneyFeb 18, 2023
She Came to Me is a movie whose strained eccentricity gets positively goopy, conveying so little genuine feeling that the stakes for any of the characters never feel terribly high. Read full review
20
The TelegraphTim RobeyFeb 18, 2023
I snorted with genuine laughter, hard, at this film’s closing notion of what being a comedy even is. Read full review
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