The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: April 26, 2024 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Generally favorable reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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15
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1
Negative:
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
The New YorkerRichard BrodyApr 29, 2024
Arnow’s poignant and original performance—refined in its awkwardness, exalted in its degradation, touched with grace in its rude self-presentation—is a double masterwork of acting and directing. Read full review
90
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Tina Romina FavayediJun 21, 2024
It asks similar questions about millennial New York life as Girls. And its naturalism is straight out of mumblecore. Yet Arnow carves out her own style. But what is truly groundbreaking is her depiction of BDSM. Read full review
90
ColliderChase HutchinsonApr 25, 2024
When watching The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed, the brilliant comedy from writer-director Joanna Arnow in which she also stars, both comedy and tragedy are expertly wielded in her hands. Read full review
90
VarietyCatherine BrayMay 22, 2023
It’s the unique rhythm of the way that this film is written and cut that elevates it beyond a standard millennial malaise movie. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comKatie RifeApr 26, 2024
Joanna Arnow’s second feature is a symphony of ambient embarrassment, whose movements are structured around the various men with whom the protagonist, Ann (Arnow), has relationships of varying length and ambivalence. Within these movements, Arnow hits uncomfortable notes that range from cutting corporate indignities to the ritualized abjection of erotic humiliation. Read full review
83
The Film StageRory O'ConnorMay 22, 2023
It’s a wonderfully distinctive debut by Arnow, who lays it all out in both her script and performance. Read full review
80
The Daily BeastNick SchagerApr 26, 2024
A portrait of millennial estrangement and discontent that, despite suffering from sporadic redundancy, strikes a raw cringe-comedy nerve. Read full review
80
Paste MagazineBrianna ZiglerApr 24, 2024
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Past beautifully observes how the ridiculous mundanities of being alive are some of the most difficult. Read full review
80
Screen DailyJonathan RomneyMay 22, 2023
The do’s, don’t’s and don’t-even-go-there’s of contemporary dating have long been standard fodder for US indie cinema, but they rarely get dissected quite so tartly, or with such weirdly impassive wit, as in The Feeling That The Time For Doing Something Has Passed. Read full review
75
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMay 3, 2024
Some films are destined for nervous laughter, with enough of a pungent aftertaste to linger. This is one of them. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJake CoyleApr 24, 2024
Much is just out of reach in Arnow’s shrewdly perceptive and very funny new film. Read full review
75
IndieWireRyan LattanzioMay 24, 2023
The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed lacks for drama in its portrayal of the quotidian realities of sexual kink, but Arnow’s voice is distinctive, shrewd, and spiky enough to keep it afloat. Read full review
70
Screen RantMary KasselApr 26, 2024
Throughout the film, Arnow takes us on a quiet odyssey that captures the search for real intimacy, as Ann struggles to act on her desires in all parts of her life. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeMay 22, 2023
Arnow’s film won’t be for everyone — there’s a specificity and an insider energy to some of the jokes, which don’t always land — but there’s enough to fuel curiosity about what Arnow is trying to do. Even the title, with its sense of drifting and silent ellipses, makes you think. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineMark HansonSep 8, 2023
The film embodies the alienating angst of millennial life in all its nakedly neurotic glory. Read full review
50
The New York TimesAmy NicholsonApr 26, 2024
Arnow’s sophisticated point — the one referenced in the film’s unwieldy title — is what drives interest until our own spirits snap. Read full review
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