Violet & Daisy
Cinedigm Entertainment Group | Release Date: June 7, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 16 Critic Reviews
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11
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2
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago Sun-TimesMary HoulihanJun 6, 2013
Violet & Daisy won’t be everyone’s cup of tea... But view this as a modern comic book/fairy tale, and it’s easier to accept this saga of girls with guns and the life lessons they eventually confront. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttMay 3, 2013
It’s a film that doesn’t always work but when it does you almost hear an audible click. Violet & Daisy has its share of these ah-ha moments. Read full review
63
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundJun 4, 2013
A twisted, spirited exercise in stark juxtaposition, a grindhouse fairy tale of sorts that pairs the sugary sweet with the nastily violent. Read full review
60
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJun 4, 2013
The key relationships are well drawn, if not especially revealing of anything human, and director Fletcher sometimes dares some welcome absurdity. But if you've seen movies built from the same parts as this one, you'll likely find this too familiar—but energetic, well-acted, and distinguished by artfully artless chatter. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comMatt Zoller SeitzJun 7, 2013
Gandolfini's quietly magnificent performance is the only reason to see Violet & Daisy. Read full review
50
Washington PostStephanie MerryJun 6, 2013
The actors can’t compensate for a story that ultimately sputters. Read full review
50
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreJun 4, 2013
Fletcher and his players never quite hit on a tone that works. Fantastical dream sequences and side trips to the store to get “more bullets” never quite rise to the level of wry commentary. This just isn’t as cute and funny as Fletcher seems to think it is. Read full review
50
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 3, 2013
Violet & Daisy feels radically disconnected from recognizable human behavior. Read full review
48
Film.comWilliam GossJun 10, 2013
So self-conscious that it alienates the viewer early and often. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyJun 5, 2013
Geoffrey Fletcher’s directorial debut, Violet & Daisy, has a lot of arch dialogue and very little depth. Talky and artificial, it moves like a sort of lobotomized Hal Hartley movie; it has plenty of Hartley-esque rhetorical devices — theatrical speech patterns, naïve characters, jokey plotting — but lacks Hartley’s sense of curiosity or engagement with the real world. Read full review
40
The New York TimesA.O. ScottJun 6, 2013
While the film has an appealingly dreamy, summer-in-New-York look and a pleasantly languorous rhythm, it gives the actors very little to do and the audience almost nothing to care about. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyJun 6, 2013
Violet & Daisy comes out of the gate guns blazing. Too bad it ends as a misfire. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierJun 6, 2013
Gandolfini scoops up another chance to show off the gentleness he left at home during six seasons of “The Sopranos.” Read full review
40
Time OutMatt SingerJun 4, 2013
Deserves some kind of Bizarro World Robert Altman Independent Spirit Award for the Best Ensemble in the Least Interesting Movie. Read full review
38
New York PostSara StewartJun 6, 2013
Predicated almost entirely on the repeated juxtaposition of innocent girlishness and mindless violence, Violet & Daisy could still have been campy fun — instead, it wilts for lack of wit. Read full review
25
ObserverRex ReedJun 4, 2013
This disoriented drivel was written by — and marks the directing debut of — Geoffrey Fletcher, who won an Academy Award for writing "Precious." It’s weird, but not in a good way. Read full review
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