The Rehearsal
Footprint Films | Release Date: July 7, 2017 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
61
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
VarietyOwen GleibermanJul 6, 2017
The Rehearsal is engrossing, but it’s not a major vision. Read full review
75
IndieWireMichael NordineJul 6, 2017
Set at a prestigious drama school and frequently engrossing, the film unfolds like an experimental acting workshop that occasionally falters when the plot intrudes on the performances. Read full review
75
The PlaylistNoel MurrayJul 6, 2017
Throughout the film, Maclean and Perkins toy with the ever-shifting layers of truth and fiction in a theater rehearsal. But they’re also using Catton’s book to comment on how school can sometimes be a poor preparation for life itself. Read full review
67
The Film StageTanner StechnijJul 6, 2017
Its visual precision elicits a unique mood that elevates the film from the normal, self-important teenage tale. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJul 7, 2017
The problem is that the relatively brief running time (less than two hours) works at cross-purposes with the movie's laid back characterizations and populated cast. Read full review
60
The New York TimesGlenn KennyJul 6, 2017
At the end Ms. Maclean forsakes all the unsettling subtlety and nuance she has had so clearly in her command to serve up a finale that I found frankly confounding, despite its having been foreshadowed. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeJul 6, 2017
Treating the subject of creative exploitation not with overheated moralism but as a year-in-the-life social chronicle, the picture makes a solid, if very tardy, follow-up to the director's 1999 breakout Jesus' Son. Read full review
60
We Got This CoveredMatt DonatoJul 6, 2017
The Rehearsal is much like any coming-of-age melodrama, and while its meat is a little overdone, its intro and finale bookends do make up for a lack of flavor in between. Read full review
50
New York PostSara StewartJul 7, 2017
This is a single story that feels like a handful of sketches in need of more connection. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJul 6, 2017
The Rehearsal, director Alison Maclean’s first feature since the 1999 Denis Johnson adaptation Jesus’ Son, is such a hodgepodge of arthouse references, arch distancing effects, and emotionally vacant wide-screen compositions that one could easily mistake it for an awkward debut film. Read full review
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