Wristcutters: A Love Story Critic Reviews

For a film about suicide, Wristcutters is agreeably loopy and game. Dukic is bitterly funny rather than maudlin, and his carefully plotted grunge chic, in addition to being cheap, lends the film a great deal of Jim Jarmusch grime to go with its unmistakable Jim Jarmusch quirk.Read the full review

The whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way.Read the full review

Has an offbeat, absurdist charm that turns a potentially creepy conceit into an odd, touching adventure.Read the full review

Turns out to be a sweetly grim lark: a road film through Limbo. It takes the self-pity associated with ending one's life and uses it for the purposes of mordantly aware comic fantasy.Read the full review

A quirky but surprisingly lighthearted dark comedy.Read the full review

The movie isn't laugh out loud funny, under the circumstances, but it is bittersweet and wistfully amusing; the actors enjoy lachrymosity. We witness the birth of a new genre, the Post-Slasher Movie.Read the full review

It is neither as clever nor as funny nor as inventive as the daring title might lead one to expect.Read the full review

It's borderline parody of a kind of fey filmmaking popular at crunchy-granola festivals, but the counterfeit aesthetic is ultimately outshone by the life-affirming message.Read the full review

Though its absurdist inventions occasionally border on twee, this affectionate slow-blooming romance mines an understated vein of comic melancholy that the actors' wistful performances perfectly capture.Read the full review