Talk to Me
Focus Features | Release Date: July 13, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
69
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
24
Mixed:
9
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
VarietyRobert Koehler
Alternates too deliberately between jaunty comedy and serious message-making. Read full review
60
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
The movie always teeters on the verge of something deeper, and Cheadle’s rendering of Greene’s stubborn refusal to be domesticated is funny, exhilarating and then quietly tragic. But Lemmons keeps pulling back into jive-talking shtick, and for much of the time -- I felt as though someone had trapped me in a time-warped episode of "The Jeffersons." Read full review
60
EmpireHelen O'Hara
There’s terrific chemistry between the leads, but an episodic structure set over 20 years is too sprawling to really allow for a connection. Read full review
58
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
Whatever brought Greene down was far more complex than this film allows for. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Unfortunately, that story isn't particularly well told, and after a while, the strength of the two leads' work and the popping soundtrack can't hide the fact that Lemmons doesn't really have much to say about the material. Read full review
50
Village VoiceNathan Lee
The banality of Talk To Me is only half disappointing; at least it babbles clichés with conviction. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
The early scenes of Greene misbehaving on the air are pretty funny, thanks mainly to Martin Sheen as the apoplectic station manager. But I was bummed out by the movie's trite VH1 cartoon of the black power era--especially coming from Kasi Lemmons, who made her directing debut with the hauntingly ambiguous "Eve's Bayou." Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
A potentially great movie winds up buried inside a just OK one. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
For a movie that celebrates the power of speech, Talk to Me is oddly tongue tied. Its dialogue, equal parts uptight honky and jumping jive seems, particularly in the early stretches, to have been generated by a computer. Read full review
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