The Dating Game
| Release Date: October 10, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 6 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
Screen DailyAllan HunterJan 30, 2025
The Dating Game is sustained by the humanity that Du Feng finds in each of the individuals we come to know and understand a little better. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerJan 25, 2025
An illuminating look at a superpower in the throes of a burgeoning cultural catastrophe—and of a few of its myriad desperate-for-love men. Read full review
70
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJan 30, 2025
The colorful, almost exuberant surfaces of Violet Du Feng’s The Dating Game mask a grim, dystopian reality. Read full review
67
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 30, 2025
A documentary whose strengths and weaknesses all too perfectly reflect the nature of the crisis at its core — a crisis that stems from a vast confluence of geopolitical issues, but expresses itself through the siloed misery of loneliness and longing. Read full review
50
VarietyJ. Kim MurphyJan 30, 2025
The feature is awkwardly compressed in its portrait of heartache and easily overwhelmed by the political portent of its subject. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerJan 30, 2025
The moments where these reluctant clients open up about their wholesome desires, their dreams of spending their lives with someone they can grow old appreciating, invigorate the unfocused film. The rest of the time is spent whirling around all the fascinating subtopics Feng brushes. Read full review
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