Twinless
Roadside Attractions | Release Date: September 5, 2025 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
79
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
The Irish TimesTara BradyFeb 5, 2026
Grief is seldom this entertaining. Read full review
90
Los Angeles TimesCarlos AguilarSep 5, 2025
A shrewdly constructed, heartrending dramedy. Read full review
90
Vanity FairRichard LawsonJan 26, 2025
Twinless is a disarmingly assured film. Sweeney’s stylistic flourishes and complex writing flow with an easy cadence. Read full review
88
RogerEbert.comChristy LemireSep 5, 2025
All these elements come together with a delicate tonal balance that would have been difficult even for veteran filmmakers to achieve. See “Twinless” with your other half, whoever they may be. This is a movie you’ll want to talk through with someone afterward. Read full review
88
The Seattle TimesDominic BaezSep 4, 2025
It’s a whiplash journey of humor bordering on callousness, and sadness just shy of suffocating, but you’ll want to hold its twisted, bruised heart in your hands all the same. It deserves some comfort after all it’s been through. Read full review
88
ObserverSiddhant AdlakhaJun 17, 2025
Even without its numerous rug-pulls, which occur early enough that the movie soon takes on an entirely different tone, Twinless is a masterful example of shifting cinematic POV. Read full review
88
New York PostJohnny OleksinskiJan 27, 2025
You’ll begin “Twinless” with basic expectations, and you’ll end it with your mouth agape. And then you’ll ask the most satisfying question there is after first encountering an exciting young filmmaker’s work: When’s the next one? Read full review
83
The Film StageJake Kring-SchreifelsFeb 3, 2025
Sweeney––who, in addition to acting and directing, wrote the script––has no trouble with lubrication, layering genres atop each other in a way that’s plausible and cohesive. He’s got an acute feel for how to deploy humor and grief into the same space, especially as more backstory unwinds and the movie’s heightened stakes infiltrate the perception of his characters. Read full review
83
The PlaylistGregory EllwoodJan 25, 2025
At its heart, Twinless is a movie about loneliness. About finding someone to fill that emptiness, soothing life’s inherent anxiety. Whether a lover or a friend, they are often hard to find. Read full review
83
IndieWireDavid EhrlichJan 25, 2025
Twinless mines a steady drumbeat of solid laughs from the mismatched energy of its co-leads, and the Pinter-like precision of Sweeney’s dialogue is especially well-suited to the scenes where Dennis and Roman are talking at each other on completely different wavelengths. Read full review
82
Paste MagazineJesse HassengerJun 9, 2025
Sweeney’s film, his second high-achieving, high-wire act in a row, lives on the line between yearning and helpless fixation. Read full review
80
EmpireHarry StainerFeb 4, 2026
A cute, warm-hearted indie darling this is not. Twinless is an uncomfortable, pitch-black comedy you won’t be able to look away from, with a career-best performance from Dylan O’Brien. Read full review
80
Next Best PictureAlex PapaioannouNov 6, 2025
Dylan O’Brien delivers a career-best performance, and James Sweeney shows both a deft hand and great talent behind the camera as director. Read full review
80
Film ThreatAlan NgSep 11, 2025
Twinless delivers a sharp take on grief, deception, and unlikely connections. Characters are pushed into situations both painful and oddly tender. By the end, the film leaves you squirming but fully invested, proving that even the strangest setups can lead to an emotionally devastating payoff. Read full review
80
ColliderTaylor GatesJan 26, 2025
Twinless is a masterfully crafted and thought-provoking dramedy that’s sure to leave you with much to grapple with. Beyond being thematically rich and carefully assembled, it’s also just a really good time. Read full review
80
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 26, 2025
Sweeney recognizes that some of his laughs could be in poor taste, but isn’t shy about casting himself as a weirdo, when such discomfort can point the way to deeper truths. Read full review
80
TheWrapChase HutchinsonJan 26, 2025
The film could be mistaken as cringe comedy, but it’s much more than that, and Sweeney never lets the film’s delightful twists overtake the emotion at the root of the movie. Read full review
80
Screen DailyAmber WilkinsonJan 26, 2025
It’s not just the structure of the film that is clever, Sweeney varies his joke delivery, so that there is a mix of one-liners and more slow-burn humour alongside a raft of sight gags. Read full review
80
Screen RantGraeme GuttmannJan 26, 2025
Twinless is designed to make you squirm, but it's through this discomfort that Sweeney finds humor and heart. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterLovia GyarkyeJan 25, 2025
What makes Twinless special and surprisingly compassionate is how this director handles grieving characters. Read full review
80
The GuardianBenjamin LeeJan 25, 2025
Sweeney’s smart and highly unusual film earns its boundary-pushing because he never loses sight of the inescapable, human sadness at its core. For all of its themes of identical mental and physical connection, Twinless is a true original. Read full review
75
Washington PostTy BurrSep 4, 2025
James Sweeney seems intent on leading us all merrily to hell. Read full review
75
The Associated PressJocelyn NoveckSep 4, 2025
In the end, we’re left to ponder not only grief but loneliness, and the lengths people will go to fight it. Shakespeare had a line about that, too, referring to “the mystery of your loneliness.” In Sweeney’s disturbing but also oddly satisfying tale, that essential human condition retains its mystery. Read full review
75
Slant MagazineRocco T. ThompsonFeb 1, 2025
The film is a bizarrely moving and darkly comic story about feeling like you’ve lost something you never had. Read full review
70
The New York TimesAlissa WilkinsonSep 4, 2025
Despite its charms, and it is frequently charming, Twinless also succumbs to some of the issues that tend to plague movies of this type, the small and clever dark comedy about young people having big feelings. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubJacob OllerSep 4, 2025
As its characters make bad choices, some foolish, some perverse, and some truly Machiavellian, Twinless sticks with the absurd emotional catastrophe that follows. That dedication to the mess it’s made is often captivating, even when the film’s intentional line-blurring between comedy, romance, and gaslighting thriller never reaches the heights of its twin-centric sources of inspiration, like Brian De Palma. Read full review
60
Little White LiesDavid JenkinsFeb 4, 2026
As a writer and director, Sweeney shows much promise, at times demonstrating the swaggering confidence of the Canadian upstart, Xavier Dolan – the pair even look quite similar. Yet the film works best as a showcase for exemplary range of O’Brien. Read full review
60
SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSep 4, 2025
Whenever the film was on the verge of losing me, O'Brien's steady, remarkable performance brought me back. He really is that good here, and honestly, that might just be enough. Read full review
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