Wristcutters: A Love Story Critic Reviews
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Based upon 11 Critic Reviews- Highest Rated
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Has an offbeat, absurdist charm that turns a potentially creepy conceit into an odd, touching adventure.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
Somewhat original and amusing. But only somewhat.Read the full review
The whole film is cracked, but in a stylish, downtown way.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
A quirky but surprisingly lighthearted dark comedy.Read the full review
Seems to me, teenage suicide isn't that funny, and nothing in this movie changed my mind.Read the full review
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
