Waydowntown
Home Vision Entertainment (HVE) | Release Date: January 25, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
88
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Maybe you have to have experienced one of these anti-weather urban cocoons to appreciate the concept of the film, and the prickly people who populate it. Read full review
80
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
Has a poignant undertone: We may feel we already know in our bones just how suffocating this culture is; but the people who made this movie seem to be discovering each fresh horror for the first time. It's like watching a virgin sacrifice. Read full review
75
Boston GlobeJay Carr
The film will resonate with today's alienated workers, whose every brain cell and nerve ending hates the soul-crushing jobs they're told they should be grateful to have. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
It's a smart and creative comedy that skewers cheaply dehumanizing architecture and self-absorbed yuppie mentalities in a series of skillfully assembled scenes. See it in a theater that's waydowntown, and city life may never look the same. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
Waydowntown may not be perfect, but it is perfectly astute in the target it selects and in the questions it raises. Read full review
70
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A smart, sardonic satire. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
Occasionally resembling an episode of Seinfeld taken to the big screen, waydowntown shares that show's ability to mine mundane details for humor, and its Tomorrowland-gone-awry setting provides plenty of raw material. Read full review
60
TV Guide MagazineSteve Simels
The acting is similarly accomplished across the board, though it must be noted that Currie nearly walks off with the film: He's the funniest preppie seducer since Tim Matheson in "Animal House" (1978). Read full review
50
New York PostLou Lumenick
Quirky and sometimes hilarious Canadian comedy. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJessica Winter
With wit and empathy to spare, waydowntown acknowledges the silent screams of workaday inertia but stops short of indulging its characters' striving solipsism. Read full review
30
Film ThreatPhil Hall
Writer/director Gary Burns offers a suffocating experience which is too boring to be accepted as a satire, too lame to be accepted as a farce, and too infantile to be accepted as a drama. Read full review
30
VarietyKen Eisner
Third outing for prairie auteur Gary Burns is his most ambitious, and most uneven, effort yet. Read full review
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