Splitsville
Neon | Release Date: August 22, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
73
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
Positive:
25
Mixed:
6
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonAug 29, 2025
The linchpin is Johnson, who turns in a vulnerable yet confident performance as an always chill woman who might be too willing to make a relationship work, a role she’s mastered since starring in the “Fifty Shades” trilogy. Read full review
91
The Film StageLuke HicksJun 12, 2025
Splitsville is overflowing with one-liners and gut-busters that make it ripe for subsequent viewings. Read full review
90
The Daily BeastNick SchagerAug 22, 2025
A romantic comedy that tears down, and then builds back up, its intertwined characters to amusingly penetrating effect. Read full review
90
The New York TimesBen KenigsbergAug 21, 2025
Covino and Marvin continue to forge a distinct comic sensibility — and, what’s rarer these days, they know how to make the camera work for the humor. Their knack for sight gags and staging in depth would shame the makers of the recent “Naked Read full review
90
New York Magazine (Vulture)Alison WillmoreAug 20, 2025
Splitsville is a comedy that’s grounded in its characters, but also has a downright old-fashioned devotion to the visual, to the ways in which the farcical sight of four guys crammed onto a sofa can be just as capable of generating laughs as a good line. Read full review
90
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAug 20, 2025
Guts will be busted, and sides will be split. Heck, moviegoers might even learn to kiss and make up with comedies for good. Read full review
90
The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerMay 21, 2025
The movie captivates early on with several scenes of physical and mental mayhem, before settling into a more classic comic formula — albeit one with plenty of twists to come. Read full review
88
Chicago TribuneKatie WalshAug 22, 2025
Covino’s filmmaking is tremendously appealing, buoyant and playful, and in Splitsville, he dials everything up from The Climb, especially the comedy. Read full review
83
Original-CinKaren GordonAug 29, 2025
The film is part buddy comedy, part rom-com, and partly just good natured silliness, but it coheres. It’s entertaining enough that you can just go with it, but there is depth there, if you’re so inclined. It says a few meaningful things about relationships without becoming a self-help class. And it has heart and charm in spades. Read full review
83
The PlaylistChase HutchinsonMay 21, 2025
Splitsville goes off the rails in increasingly entertaining fashion, with every single part offering something new and unpredictable. It’s a film of well-crafted jokes that are based in character and a willingness to more than go for broke when needed. Read full review
83
IndieWireEsther ZuckermanMay 21, 2025
It’s shaggy in places and favors one side of its story above the other, but ultimately makes for a delightful time. Read full review
80
The IndependentClarisse LoughreyApr 2, 2026
There’s an argument to be made that Splitsville’s noncommittal on the subject of polyamory. I think that might, in fact, be the point: Covino and Marvin aren’t interested so much in whether polyamory is the solution to, or destruction of, a longterm relationship, but more the fact people’s stated beliefs and innate desires tend to be two entirely different and conflicted concepts. Read full review
80
EmpireHarry StainerMar 26, 2026
The kind of good old-fashioned adult comedy we don’t see enough — delivering a confident commentary on the mess of modern sex and relationships. Unpredictable, unromantic and, most importantly, unbelievably funny. Read full review
80
Time OutMatt SingerMar 20, 2026
What makes Splitsville stand out? Simply put, it’s goddamn hilarious. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerAug 21, 2025
In pure plot mechanics and interpersonal dynamics, Splitsville resembles any number of Woody Allen movies, double-hinged on the capriciousness and endurance of love. Read full review
80
TheWrapBen CrollJun 4, 2025
As filmmakers, Covino and Marvin are singularly committed to each bit, pushing all premises to the comic extreme. Their characters, however, are less than steadfast and true. Read full review
80
Screen RantPatrice WitherspoonMay 23, 2025
Thankfully, Covino and Martin never insult our intelligence by over-explanatory dialogue and lectures. Instead, this talented writing duo focuses on what audiences want: human desire and the wild things we’ll do for connection. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleRichard WhittakerAug 28, 2025
Splitsville succeeds because it never seems fragmented. As a director, Covino dances between the sensual and the silly while constantly exploring the core thesis of the messiness of relationships. Read full review
75
Washington PostChris KlimekSep 4, 2025
The grand subject of “Splitsville” is the virtues and pitfalls of unconventional relationship structures, and it’s never more inspired than when it’s finding surreal ways to convey the insecurities such arrangements may awaken. Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoAug 22, 2025
Billed as “an unromantic comedy,” Covino’s is a film that recalls comedies of the ‘70s in its willingness to allow its quartet of lead characters to be horny, problematic, and generally idiotic. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubNatalia KeoganAug 21, 2025
The film climaxes with several spinning plates that crash in a delightful crescendo Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleAug 20, 2025
Though there are elaborately choreographed long takes that smack of contemporary moviemaking, “Splitsville” belongs more to a screwball tradition stretching back to the 1930s. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineJustin ClarkAug 19, 2025
Splitsville thrives on the unpredictability of this formal freedom before settling back into a familiar Hollywood narrative formula: the comedy of remarriage. Read full review
70
Rolling StoneDavid FearAug 21, 2025
You’ll still spend close to two hours wondering whether Splitsville wants you to walk away thinking that you’ve seen something semi-sweet or almost irredeemably sour. The key is recognizing how satisfying things feel when they somehow manage to split the difference. Read full review
70
ColliderJason GorberMay 21, 2025
In the end, Splitsville is a lot of stupid fun told smartly, unafraid to lean into the salacious while still somehow maintaining an emotional groundedness. Read full review
60
The GuardianAdrian HortonAug 20, 2025
That Splitsville stays on track to the finish is mostly credit to chemistry – that ineffable, unpredictable thing between two, or three, or maybe four people, with just enough variation for each relationship here. Splitsville may take shots at the loose-boundaried, but they’re laced with truth: partnered or single, open or closed, we’re all working with the same raw material. Read full review
50
Little White LiesHannah StrongFeb 20, 2026
It’s a film not without occasional moments of spark, and flits along quite happily, but Splitsville seems continually intent on undermining itself, and in the process becomes totally forgettable. Read full review
50
The New YorkerJustin ChangAug 22, 2025
Covino’s technique, for all its finesse, has a mechanistic quality that soon turns deadening. The movie is less a screwball comedy than a screwball contraption—a madcap farce that the screenwriters have reduced to a math problem. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesMark OlsenAug 22, 2025
The entire movie has a disappointing air of smug self-regard about it, with an expectation the audience will adore everything about the characters as much as they do. What at moments feels like a nascent interrogation of contemporary masculinity ultimately suffers from the very impulses it seems to want to parody. Read full review
50
VarietyGuy LodgeMay 21, 2025
The push-pull kinetics keeping these increasingly raddled lovers together and apart eventually turn from manic to strenuous, not least because viewers are likely to be less invested than the film is in their final formation. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonMay 21, 2025
While this new film is that rare visually striking indie comedy, the clever dialogue and potentially provocative scenarios eventually fizzle, resulting in an unfocused commentary on the absurdity of modern love that is, itself, far removed from reality. Read full review
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