Turn Me On, Dammit!
New Yorker Films | Release Date: March 30, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
Positive:
15
Mixed:
3
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisMar 29, 2012
With its soft, bleached images and occasional detours into black-and-white stills, Turn Me On, set in an unspecified recent past, has a gentle oddness as unforced as its performances and as inoffensive as its dialogue. Read full review
85
MovielineAlison WillmoreMar 29, 2012
The way salty-sweet comedy Turn Me On, Dammit! treats the hormone-addled turmoil of its 15-year-old heroine Alma feels something close to revolutionary. I don't want to overburden this mild-mannered 76-minute Norwegian debut, but it's true. Read full review
80
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzMay 10, 2012
Stuff just happens, some of it funny, some of it uncomfortable, some of it good, some of it bad. Just like real life, which is what makes Turn Me On, Dammit! so weirdly enjoyable. Read full review
75
St. Louis Post-DispatchCalvin WilsonJul 7, 2012
Alma is at once a charmer and a contrarian, and Bergsholm achieves that balance with seeming effortlessness. At times, she's more than a bit reminiscent of the young Jodie Foster. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Alexandra Molotkow May 17, 2012
Turn Me On, Dammit! is that rare thing: an honest coming-of-age story from the female perspective. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyMay 1, 2012
Throughout, Bergsholm's poker-faced performance creates the effect that we are watching the misadventures of an actual teenager. It may be a slight comedy but Turn Me On, Dammit! is enormously entertaining. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisApr 26, 2012
What's refreshing about the Danish movie is how direct the girls are. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartMar 30, 2012
So deftly does Turn Me On, Dammit! approximate the experience of small-town teenagerhood that occasionally its slowness can frustrate. Read full review
70
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesJul 5, 2012
Jannicke Systad Jacobsen, a documentary maker directing her first fiction film, demonstrates a sure sense of tone, and Bergsholm is memorable as the misfit teen. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleJun 28, 2012
The movie treats a girl's burgeoning sexuality as neither epic nor problematic, or mutually exclusive of feelings of love, but rather simply, refreshingly, as one part of maturing. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternApr 12, 2012
Here's a debut feature from Norway, a coming of age comedy so fresh and droll that the actors seem not to have been directed at all, but simply observed as they went about their odd lives. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoApr 3, 2012
It's a mixed blessing to see these dramas play out in Norwegian, surrounded by what we tend to imagine are more liberal perspectives on sex. Read full review
70
NPRIan BuckwalterMar 30, 2012
There's an undeniable sweetness here, evident in the vulnerability that peeks through Alma's disaffected facade, and in the unconventional grand romantic gesture that turns the film's climax into a playfully dirty spin on "Say Anything's" boombox scene. Read full review
70
SalonAndrew O'HehirMar 25, 2012
This yarn about an innocent-looking but desperately horny teenage girl might not have that much commercial upside, but its bittersweet, faintly depressed brand of Nordic humor is definitely enjoyable. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerMar 25, 2012
Nothing here is wrong, but beyond pointing out that sexually charged teenage girls are likely to be misunderstood in an oppressive small town, there's nothing that's especially insightful here either. Read full review
60
Time OutMatt SingerMar 27, 2012
There's plenty here to recommend; so what if its explicitness and femcentric sexuality turn off some prudish viewers, dammit! Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliJun 14, 2012
The film's editing and pacing are appealingly straightforward, not to say blunt, and the humor runs from dry to bone-dry to parched. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonMar 27, 2012
Like its title, Turn Me On, Dammit! is a jokey pseudo-provocation. Read full review
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