The Little Death
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: June 26, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
46
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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2
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ObserverRex ReedJun 24, 2015
The film investigates a gallery of kinks, fetishes, oddball turn-ons, and pent up sexual repressions like somnophilia (sex with someone who is asleep), dacryphilia (tears and sobbing), unconventional role-playing, and worse. The results are sad and often laugh-out-loud funny. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloJun 25, 2015
The Little Death never feels remotely of a piece, and is likely to find its proper audience months from now when the individual sketches show up on YouTube. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJun 25, 2015
Alternately silly and provocative, strained and funny. Read full review
50
The DissolveScott TobiasJun 25, 2015
Generally speaking, the more obscure the fetish, the worse the subplot gets, though they all wear out their one-joke welcome before Lawson inevitably turns up the sentiment and makes the film about love and kids and happy unions. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAbby GarnettJun 23, 2015
Lawson's wishy-washiness about tone doesn't prevent the actors from nailing the comic exchanges. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreJun 23, 2015
A broad, goofy primer on the not-quite-cutting-edge of consensual adult sexuality. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJun 21, 2015
It's perched uneasily on a fence separating a rote comic sketch film from something weirder, stranger, and less engaged with offering reassuring domestic homilies. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin ChangApr 22, 2015
The actors are all game and well paired, but flashes of chemistry and an appreciable level of production finesse (courtesy of d.p. Simon Chapman and composer Michael Yezerski) aren’t enough to bring the requisite charge to this flimsy, pseudo-provocative material. Read full review
40
The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldJun 25, 2015
The only sketch that’s inspired is the final one. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireJun 26, 2015
There is simultaneously too much and not enough going on in writer/director/co-star Josh Lawson’s feature debut. He crams in too many people and plot lines but offers too little in the way of character development and credible emotion. Read full review
38
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeJun 24, 2015
Sex comedies work best with light touch, and as the ponderous title (a literal translation of the French term for orgasm) indicates, Australian writer-director Josh Lawson mostly doesn’t have it. Read full review
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