Sleepwalk with Me
IFC Films | Release Date: August 24, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
71
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallOct 17, 2012
I've watched Sleepwalk With Me twice now, each time impressed with Birbiglia's confidence in revealing so much about his craft and himself, and the freely associated style with which he does it. Read full review
91
Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAug 22, 2012
Lauren Ambrose is lovely as the girlfriend he's a fool to lose but seems intent on losing anyhow. Read full review
88
USA TodayClaudia PuigSep 1, 2012
A dream for fans of offbeat, well-written, subtly acted projects. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertAug 29, 2012
I like this movie. More important, I like Mike Birbiglia in it. Whether he has a future in stand-up I cannot say, but he has a future as a monologist and actor. Read full review
88
ObserverDrew GrantAug 27, 2012
Laugh-out-loud funny and somewhat melancholic. Read full review
83
IndieWireEric KohnAug 11, 2012
Sleepwalk With Me calls to mind Judd Apatow's "Funny People" for its focus on the eccentric, obsessive nature of the wannabe comic's mind. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicKerry LengelAug 30, 2012
The perfect movie for fans of "The Daily Show" who actually stick around for the second-half interview. A cinematic memoir based on the one-man show by Mike Birbiglia, it is the aesthetic intersection of Comedy Central and public radio. Read full review
80
Time OutJoshua RothkopfAug 21, 2012
It's a comedy about the unchecked id; indeed, there's sleepwalking in it. But will those grunting strolls happen through a second-story window or on the highway? You're left cringing, and that puts Birbiglia in excellent company, alone though he might be in bed. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsSep 14, 2012
Notwithstanding its storytelling stumbles, Sleepwalk With Me points in a positive direction for this likable comedian's career. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSep 1, 2012
With a refreshing lack of fake glamour, the film captures what it's like to be an initially unpromising comedian on the road. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliAug 30, 2012
It all adds up to a fine, funny exercise in disheveled self-deprecation: a self-portrait of a guy who can't control a major portion of his life. Which, when you get right down to it, could describe almost any of us. Read full review
75
Washington PostAnn HornadayAug 30, 2012
With warmth, unsparing self-awareness and that ineffable Everyman appeal sometimes called "relatability," Birbiglia proves to be as engaging a presence on the screen as he has been all these years onstage and over the radio waves. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartAug 23, 2012
It's a tribute to Birbiglia's storytelling chops that the most engaging part of the film is when he's talking directly to the camera. The fleshed-out story, with its first-rate cast, almost feels like gilding the lily. Read full review
75
The PlaylistWilliam GossAug 23, 2012
Fans of Birbiglia should be easily entertained, and with a little luck, it will only earn this particular loveable neurotic a few more of those. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNathan RabinAug 11, 2012
As charming as it is winningly modest, but it's so incredibly slight a stiff wind would knock it into a different hemisphere. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinSep 1, 2012
Moment to moment, Sleepwalk With Me is smooth and very entertaining, but it's arrested somewhere between fiction and autobiography. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeySep 1, 2012
Having seen the show on stage, I wondered if Birbiglia could morph the ideas into an equally funny movie. He hasn't quite, but he's come pretty close. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonAug 31, 2012
Sleepwalk With Me makes the subject palatable, funny and maybe even touching. Read full review
70
TimeRichard CorlissAug 27, 2012
Sleepwalk is oddly soothing, like a cup of camomile tea before bedtime. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen HoldenAug 23, 2012
These episodes, some staged as surreal dream sequences, inject this otherwise prosaic-looking movie with a visual pizazz that makes Sleepwalk With Me more than just a glorified stand-up act. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterDuane ByrgeAug 11, 2012
Much of the best comedy derives from personal pain, and comic turned filmmaker Mike Birbiglia deftly transposes his stand-up routine to the big screen. Read full review
70
VarietyPeter DebrugeAug 11, 2012
An endearing indie feature about the day-to-day indecisions and nocturnal perambulations of a commitment-phobic New Yorker. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesAug 29, 2012
Sleepwalk With Me is never anything less than awfully likable. But I so wanted it to be more. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundAug 21, 2012
The funny thing about the movie isn't its failure-to-launch humor, but the weird mess of life that rushes in despite it. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanAug 23, 2012
Birbiglia is a great storyteller, but not a natural actor. Matt should really be played by someone with more skill - and by someone in his 20s, rather than a 33-year-old who pretends to be in his 20s by acting as clueless as possible. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisAug 30, 2012
Birbiglia, who's from Shrewsbury, has done some wonderful things with awkwardness. I'm sad to report that Sleepwalk With Me isn't one of them. Read full review
50
Village VoiceKarina LongworthAug 21, 2012
[Rides] a weird tonal line, maybe aiming to split the difference between comedy and terror but coming off as afraid to really go for it on either. Read full review
40
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottSep 7, 2012
Sleepwalk With Me is a decent film -- even if its not one that lingers. Read full review
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