Touch Me Not
Kino Lorber | Release Date: January 11, 2019 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
65
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
Positive:
8
Mixed:
5
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah Young
Though not every moment is fascinating to watch, most moments are, and adult audiences should find its frank presentation of the diversity of intimacy thought-provoking and possibly therapeutic. Read full review
80
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJan 10, 2019
You could say that what the film is about lies just beyond the reach of images or words. It’s a necessarily cerebral meditation on the nature of physicality. Read full review
75
Slant MagazinePat BrownJan 7, 2019
Touch Me Not‘s commingling of narrator and narrative, character and actor, fiction and documentary suggests that cinema itself is capable of being a manner of touch, the site of a nebulous and freeing encounter between people. Read full review
75
The PlaylistJessica KiangJun 4, 2018
Less a narrative than an explorative essay, as artificial as it is self-involved, lacking any discernible sense of humor, occasionally a bit silly in execution yet deeply, rigidly earnest in intent, and laboring under that aggravatingly prim, Victorian title: It really does everything it can to make you hate it. Read full review
75
The Film StageEd Frankl
The surprise winner of the Berlinale’s Golden Bear is a film not easily summed up in an elevator pitch. It is, however, a studious, intelligent, if flawed and scattershot, work with an open mind about modern sexuality and intimacy. That open mind will need to be replicated in the audience too. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleFeb 28, 2019
Pintilie has a way of nudging the strangeness of her fiction/documentary hybridization so that your engagement isn’t predicated on narrative catharsis, but simply a desire for the continued frankness of it all. Read full review
70
VarietyJay Weissberg
Pintilie is the opposite of a misanthrope — she’s genuinely invested in opening the mind to the body’s sensations. Keeping it all balanced is where she gets bogged down. Read full review
63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzSep 12, 2018
It’s not that every film has to achieve some grand epiphany, but Touch Me Not is not nearly as satisfying as the primal act it’s obsessed with. Read full review
60
Film ThreatBradley GibsonFeb 28, 2019
Featuring a mix of fiction and real life, Touch Me Not explores intimacy in an experimental feature film that manages to make sex seem unlikely and tiresome. Read full review
60
Screen DailyWendy Ide
The film does praiseworthy work when it comes to challenging accepted assumptions about what constitutes beauty and sexuality. It does so, however, through a degree of physical and emotional oversharing which some audiences will find deeply off-putting. Read full review
58
IndieWireDavid EhrlichMar 15, 2018
Touch Me Not points towards all manner of holistic truths, but leaves them all frustratingly out of reach. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comSheila O'MalleyJan 11, 2019
Touch Me Not is definitely abstract and intellectualized, although I didn't find it exploitative. But so much of the film left me cold, even bored. Read full review
40
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 18, 2018
People will want to make their own minds up about the film, but for me there is something worryingly crass and naive in it. Read full review
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