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3.2
Other People never quite affords its characters the same lived in quality as their ordeal.But it steadily improves as it progresses, almost in inverse ..
Av Club
3.0
Kellys best observations are small but true: the touching banality of a bad pop song, and that other people is in fact most people, if youre paying at ..
Austin Chronicle
3.0
But even though Other People constantly undercuts itself by trafficking in the worst indie cliches, it doesnt lack for ambition, wending its way to a ..
Time Out
4.5
Rather than try to hit big moments, Other People finds comfort and grace in the smaller ones.
Collider
4.5
Rather than try to hit big moments, Other People finds comfort and grace in the smaller ones.
Collider
4.0
Its a tremendous first feature, and while there are some bumps along the way, it always remains on target, especially thanks to the talented cast.
Collider
3.5
Its the kind of film with perspective that can only be derived from personal experience rather than artifice.
Paste Magazine
3.8
Its a risk to dial it down and let the subtlety of surreal humor sneak up on you.
Rogerebert
4.0
Shannons performance is endearing and poignant, delivering flares of subtle comedy that strengthen the overall tone of the film.Jean Paul Satre said i ..
The Young Folks
4.0
Usually the first big premiere of the fest is something with broad appeal.
JoBlo
4.0
What distinguishes this dramedy from the others is its use of humor and laughter as stays against death.
Spirituality And Practice
3.0
Despite a strong sense of its characters, however, Kelly rarely generates much melodramatic or amusing momentum.
Village Voice
2.5
Its worthwhile enough to justify the film being made, but just barely.
Rogers Movie Nation
4.2
I suppose there are few alternatives to choose from, but dont let the name put you to sleep, this is a must see film.
Blu Ray
4.0
But this debut feature by Saturday Night Live writer Chris Kelly gives dramedy a good name: the story is both painful and rudely funny all the way thr ..
Chicago Reader
3.1
Other People is so oddly unfocused that its tempting to call that characteristic a function of the narrative and not a flaw with it.
Mark Reviews Movies
4.0
Further proof that when it comes to drama, comedy actors are often the experts.
The Guardian
3.5
Thats the rhythm Kelly, a Saturday Night Live writer, establishes and maintains throughout: emotional moments punctuated by comedy.But if the film at ..
Az Central
3.5
Yes, weve been here beforeits that old You cant go home again storyagain.But Kelly and his cast skirt around most of the storys expected cliches with ..
Ew
4.0
But this is truly Shannons movie: Joanne feels like a real person inspiring, affecting, tragic, funny, defiant, and angry, all in one.
Common Sense Media
3.1
Shannons performance locks into the films most fully realized theme: that even the grueling misery of dying cannot rob you of a sense of humor if you ..
Slant Magazine
3.1
Poignancy is a difficult thing to achieve, since it can come off as inauthentic or dumb.
Washington Post
3.0
In Other People, David (Jesse Plemons), a gay comedy writer in New York scrambling for a big break, returns to Sacramento to help care for his mother, ..
The New York Times
3.5
Either way, Kellys earnest, reportedly auto biographical film has a lot of laughs and is best when its most deeply personal.
The Film Stage
4.4
Plemons carries the film, alongside Shannon, and gives a lovely, subtle performance in a role that demands humor and heartbreak in equal parts.
Chicago Tribune
2.8
Nevertheless, the end result is awfully sketchy, more a collection of ideas and memories than a proper film.
Blogs Indie Wire
3.5
Funny enough to help viewers cope with its downer theme but certainly not an outright comedy, the debut has a reasonably broad appeal and leaves littl ..
Hollywood Reporter
5.0
Spending most of a year in Sacramento away from New York and a kindly ex boyfriend (Zach Woods) David navigates loneliness, career anxiety, hometown d ..
Los Angeles Times
3.0
Its a slow dawning realization that bodes well for the characters next steps beyond the parameters of this messy and sporadically affecting movie.
Variety
4.4
While its frequently funny, the film certainly isnt without substance.
Aisle Seat
4.0
Your heart aches with every scene that passes as the cancer takes hold.
Hey U Guys
4.5
This year though, Sundance started not with a bang, but with uproarious laughter and enough tears to end the drought in California.
Ner Dist
4.0
Published on Sep 8, 2016 Other People starring Jesse Plemons, Molly Shannon, and Bradley Whitford is reviewed by Christy Lemire (http://www.ChristyLem ..
You Tube
3.5
A gay Garden State, the Sundance opening night film Other People is an affecting dramedy about coming to terms with death that presents Molly Shannon ..
New York Post
4.0
But in practice, every element is so well executed that the film itself feels like something special.
Film
4.4
Its a performance worthy of a best supporting actress nomination.
Chicago Sun Times
4.0
But this is a film full of eye opening performances and subtle turns that will make you laugh and cry in equal measure.
Punch Drunk Critics
4.4
Astounding performances will hold and carry you through, but perhaps if you allow it, the film will offer you something more.
Awards Circuit
4.0
What matters isnt that Kellys film breaks new ground (it doesnt) but that it emerges as a fresh perspective on the whole emotional affair.Other People ..
Crave Online
3.5
Watching bad improv comedy is hard in real life; on film, its torture.
The Verge
3.0
The indie cancer dramedy is a well established sub genre populated by films like 50/50, The Fault In Our Stars, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and of ..
Lainey Gossip
3.0
After last weeks double dose of metastasizing matriarchs, the mothers just keep on dying in Chis Kellys Other People.
Sf Weekly
5.0
Other People is beautiful in every way, an incisively funny drama accomplishing the Herculean task of eliciting comfort even as it breaks ones heart.
The Film File
3.8
A number of Kellys scenes play out like stand alone sketches some quite funny; not all of them essential rather than parts of a whole. But thats easil ..
Seattle Times
4.0
Or should we instead work to reconcile the at times uncomfortable bursts of humor with the overall tone of the film, because nothing, even loss, is a ..
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