Welcome to Me

  • 2015


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$ 0 Million
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Positive Reviews 69
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Average Rating 3.6/5
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2.8
The bold, arresting movie doesnt really work, but is nonetheless almost impossible to stop watching. Av Club
3.8
Welcome to Me basically lives and dies by performance, and, luckily, her Alice Klieg is a carefully and cunningly crafted creation, which exposes an u .. Rogerebert
4.5
Kristen Wiig plays a woman with borderline personality disorder in this startlingly inspired comedy from Shira Piven. Variety
2.5
And there doesnt appear to be a second of Alices day that isnt devoted to thinking about herself. We Got This Covered
4.0
Its here that Wiigs wallflower wit finally dovetails with a lead role that has the depth to support it, as the film evolves into an exuberant cross be .. Time Out
2.0
As a mental illness narrative in particular, it feels perilously phoney. The Guardian
3.0
To her great credit, Wiig manages to make Alice both engaging and annoying without ever rendering her ridiculous, lending heft to the films portrait o .. The Guardian
4.4
The film rejects a fawning (or even particularly detailed) account of mental illness in favor of a plunge into the deep end of a bottomless ego.
3.8
Though the larger plot centers on a rupture in Alices relationship with her best friend, Gina (Linda Cardellini), the film doesnt resolve that conflic ..
4.5
Im not even sure it can be called a movie; it feels like a setup and a character in search of a story. Vulture
4.5
But this comedy succeeds on its own strange terms, and is not too edgy to hope for modest mainstream success. The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
Yet Alices show is filled with things like cooking episodes featuring meatloaf cake (with sweet potato icing) and libelous reenactments of childhood t ..
4.5
By turns touching, amusing and genuinely disturbing, it defies expectations and easy categorization, forgoing obvious laughs and cheap emotional payof .. The New York Times
4.5
Welcome to Me pushes anti humor to its furthest extreme, until theres almost no humor at all. Paste Magazine
4.5
It doesnt take long to realize that Alice doesnt just pick up Oprah Winfreys magazine every month she has completely embraced the live your own best l ..
4.0
Wiig has proven she can do drama with the best of them, with the bonus of being able to naturally inject subtle humor into her performance without it .. The Young Folks
3.0
Rightly, no one is convinced it will work, but the studios enterprising owner, Rich Ruskin (James Marsden), doesnt care; shes just paid him a fifth of ..
3.0
Welcome to Me is not just a character study, but a satire on how the self centered emptiness of TV is a kind of epidemic. Ny Daily News
4.4
Welcome to Me is an unsettling comedy, and I mean that in the best possible way. The Globe And Mail
3.8
At turns horribly funny and simply horrific, Pivens film suggests our therapeutic age has reduced us all to psychic cripples who resort to emotional e .. Philly
3.0
She doesnt relate well to her parents and has only one friend in the world Gina (Linda Cardellini) who works at a gym. Spirituality And Practice
2.8
And so while Alices show ends with a banga telethon, no lessthat doesnt mean her condition wont go on. One Guys Opinion
4.5
The movies messy. But its funny, pungent, and sometimes affecting. Village Voice
2.5
Wiigs adorably offbeat timing, her loveable loser who doesnt realize shes a loser gift, is exhausted in what is essentially a Saturday Night Live sket .. Rogers Movie Nation
2.5
Movie characters dont have to be sympathetic; in fact, they are often more interesting when theyre not. ReelViews
2.5
Wildly uneven, Welcome to Me comes off as a cry for help, yet the production tends to process instability as quirk, attempting to find the bright side .. Blu Ray
4.5
Screenwriter Eliot Laurence and director Shira Piven... got the ideal star in Wiig, whose vacant gaze, frozen smile, and preternatural calm have alway .. Chicago Reader
1.9
Maybe the simplest solution, that Welcome to Me doesnt particularly care about mental illness beyond it serving as a joke, is the correct one. Mark Reviews Movies
2.5
Welcome to Me works better as a character study than a full fledged story. Usa Today
3.1
It doesnt help, certainly, that theres a palpable lack of plot here.) Reel Film Reviews
4.0
Welcome to Me is character comedy at its finest, and most perfectly judged, as the quirky powerhouse Kristen Wiig takes on the role of a lifetime. The Times
0.5
Its the equivalent of tripping someone on crutches and then inviting her over for tea. The Wrap
4.5
Welcome to Me has its charming, funny and sensitive moments, but it also suffers from its own form of instability. News Day
2.5
It all plays more like a long, dark TV comedy sketch than an actual movie. New York Post
4.0
Alice cant be bothered to notice Ginas struggles when theres so much me, me, me to talk about. Az Central
4.5
Barely hidden under a quirky black comedy about a not well woman trying her best to save herself is a savage satire on a not well world that doesnt ev ..
4.5
Still, this creative dramedy shines a needed spotlight on the trend to share everything about our lives with strangers. Reel Talk Reviews
4.5
On several occasions, Wiigs uncannily precise portrayal of Alices bottomless narcissism made me laugh until I cried. Salon
3.0
But theres an awful lot of baggy, repetitive, histrionic material in between the good bits, and an impressive supporting cast (including Linda Cardell .. Flim List
1.3
The movie is nothing more than a labored series of skits that play like ideas from rejected TV pilots. Observer
1.5
The director Shira Pivens visual imagination doesnt match the unhinged wonder or degrading depths of Wiigs most extravagant displays; comic and dramat .. New Yorker
2.8
Just because she has no shame doesnt mean everyone else possesses enough to make up for it. The Film Stage
3.8
The movie is small, but the actors make it seem larger, like binoculars turned around the right way. Chicago Tribune
1.5
A nervy, discomfiting comedy starring Kristen Wiig and a deep bench of supporting talent. Boston Globe
3.0
Bizarre real life infomercials promise all of the joy and none of the mess of a real parakeet. The Irish Times
3.5
In Welcome to Me we are spoiled by the comedic capabilities of Kristen Wiig, an expert doing what she does best. We wouldnt really want it any other w .. Blogs Indie Wire
3.5
At first, its hard to know what to make of Welcome to Me, and as the movie goes on, it doesnt really get any easier. Las Vegas Weekly
4.0
Ditto Wes Bentley (hes Gabe, Alices gentle but demented part time lover). Standard
4.4
A bit of conventional wisdom in the world of comedy: wacky behavior isnt as funny without the reaction to wacky behavior. Groucho Reviews
4.5
Welcome To Me is happy at times, sad at others, funny and shocking, and a joy to watch because it makes you feel real emotions about great characters Forbes
2.5
Welcome to Me, however, isnt a satire of the media or a takedown of a narcissistic character. Consequence Of Sound
2.8
Shes also, though, a wacky, imperfect protagonist were meant to laugh at and relate to. Oregon Live
2.0
In the moment, it works just fine, even if it feels like a never ending outlet for human stupidity that lacks a dramatically compelling endgame. Lw Lies
3.8
This is Wiigs show, and connoisseurs of the comedy craft will flip for her. Stl Today
3.2
Kristen Wiig out weirds herself as a self obsessed talk show host. Cleve Land
4.0
Welcome to Me pulls it off, skittering nimbly along a tightrope between offensiveness, surreal humour and mawkishness. The Arts Desk
3.5
There are a number of obvious directions Welcome To Me could take this material, and part of what makes it so refreshing, and insightful, is that it t .. The Dissolve
2.0
What starts out looking like a quirky attack on magical thinking turns out to be a sustained assault on television: the way it subsumes and distorts r .. Sandiego Reader
3.0
Theres a super insane film inside Welcome to Me, one that, as it happens, takes up about 80 percent of the picture. Metro New York
4.0
The supporting cast are excellent...but this remains the Kristen Wiig show. Welcome to Me deserves to be seen for her raw performance alone. One Room With A View
4.0
Theres shades of Network, The King of Comedy and the endurance art of Tom Green (in one episode Alice silently eats a cake for five minutes), and the .. The Skinny
2.8
Wiig is effortlessly charming as always, despite playing a deeply disturbed narcissist. Under The Radar Mag
3.8
This is a remarkably strange, unceasingly riveting piece of work. Movie Mezzanine
3.0
A funny and touching Kristen Wiig walks an acting tightrope in this dark comedy. What So
3.8
Theres dark comedy, and then theres take no prisoners, dare you to keep looking dark comedy. Kristen Wiigs Welcome to Me falls decidedly in the latter .. Seattle Times
3.5
...hilariously wacky and touching Welcome to Me, a showcase for what Wiig can do when put front and center.
4.4
Though it is shaggy and loose, Welcome to Me wants to confront us with how casually and confusingly we tend to treat mental illness, laughing in its f .. National Post
4.5
Thats challenging, to create this character thats funny but without making fun of them. The National
3.0
Youll laugh and youll cringe. But, like Alices behaviour, the film is too erratic to exert any emotional grip. So cry you wont. Sky
2.5
The most recent in a series of Wiigs depressed/repressed roles. No ones asking for a perky rom com, but please, something different. Movie Mom
2.0
Neither Joan Cusack nor Jennifer Jason Leigh has enough to do, a sign that the movie isnt going to be great.) Toronto Sun
3.8
While Wiigs take on a sort of Oprah with a mental disorder gets quirky laughs in the bizarre context of a TV show, theres a sweet pathos to the charac .. Columbus Alive
1.8
While she doesnt really humanize Alice, Wiig delivers an impressive blend of awkwardness, humor and pathos that elevates the story, even though it isn .. Reel Talk Online
4.0
But shes also been given untroubled exhibitionism, a hypnotic sultriness, and a completely unfettered libido. Metro Active
3.8
A decaffinated and sitcomish approach to a boulevard comedy of early middle age behavior Film Forward
3.8
Wiig may still become a megastar shes one of the leads in the upcoming Ghostbusters reboot and will appear in the Zoolander follow up but shell be luc .. Ut Sandiego
2.5
She doesnt want to interview guests, cover human interest stories, or discuss current events. The Film File
4.0
Its a brilliant beginning because it accomplishes two important things. Ex Press
3.5
This outrageous conceit would never work without Kristen Wiig and her correct instincts regarding such a unique character. All Movie
5.0
Alternately vulnerable and bizarre, but always endearing, the Saturday Night Live alum enjoys her best outing since Bridesmaids, here, as an anguished .. Baret News Wire
3.1
But while Wiigs performance reins in any sense of exploitation while portraying a woman with few filters on expressing what troubles and delights her, .. City Weekly
2.5
Like the heroine it portrays, the whole thing is a curio: a queasy, unpleasant thing wrapped around a cry for help, and a self indulgent one at that. Play Boy
4.5
Kristen Wiig continues to grow as a performer in Welcome to Me, which makes use of her singular comedic gifts, tempered in this film with a truly weir .. Lagniappe Mobile
5.0
For ours, obsessed with self actualization, fame and personal branding, we get the disturbingly funny satire Welcome To Me. Madison Movie
4.5
Welcome to Me, which she designs and crafts every aspect of the production, provides her exactly what she needs, a medium where she is allowed to indu .. Boulder Weekly
4.5
Im not sure if Welcome to Me is one of the best films of the year so far it genuinely might be but its definitely the weirdest. Signature Reads
4.5
And while Alice hasnt done anything worthy of seizing the spotlight, Wiig certainly has. Moveable Fest
3.0
Its a crying shame (not a hysterical, mentally unwell crying shame), but a crying shame nevertheless that the movie falls short. Especially given Wiig ..
3.8
Kristen Wiig may well be the top communicator of dry humor in the movies today. Compuserve
3.8
In the burnt toast black Sundance comedy, Kristen Wiig goes dark and bipolar without losing her shield of likeability. Its a superpower to be marveled .. Zeal Nyc



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