Susanna Fogel’s Cat Person features two great performances, but its struggle to commit to a single genre means that it often undercuts its own message.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 7, 2025

It's a conversation starter that makes you squirm in your seat, but it could still make one hell of date movie.

| Nov 13, 2024

Despite good performances and some well directed scenes, its observations on the grey areas and uncertainty of relationships feel lacking in sensitivity and abundant in melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 19, 2024

A messy adaptation that never commits to its central argument and does a disservice to the younger audience that it’s striving to reach. The filmmakers may have done all the background reading, but nevertheless spectacularly missed the point.

| Apr 21, 2024

In short, Cat Person is a genuinely tense, discussion-worthy film as long as it sticks close to its source material. When it doesn't, it wobbles and wanders.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 1, 2024

While I think the last twenty minutes of the film — where it squarely leaves the short story behind — doesn’t work at all, when the film sticks to the icky feelings that the source material captured so well, it soars.

| Feb 13, 2024

It’s kind of a mess, but at least it’s a fascinating mess.

| Feb 10, 2024

With an uneven tone that focuses on comedy for too long, Cat Person uses up too many of its nine lives too soon to warrant inclusion alongside the likes of Hard Candy, Fresh and What Keeps You Alive in the dating-from-hell genre.

| Jan 19, 2024

While the story dulls at moments, it’s the very real feeling of how quickly as a woman you can go from feeling relatively safe to question how to get out of a situation. There seems to be a sinister truth looming but I appreciate how this was captured.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2024

Keenly dissects the gender divide and our perilous virtual projections. It captivates, though navigates through intermittent narrative lulls.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 9, 2024

A precise dissection of a relationship as its being lived in the heads of these two very flawed and naive characters.

| Original Score: B | Dec 1, 2023

This is a highly intelligent, finely-acted, astutely-written and directed, well-shot (cinematographer Manuel Billeter) film that will leave questions in your mind well after the credits roll.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 28, 2023

As was the case in print, this spectacularly unsensual encounter is simultaneously provocative, funny, depressing and unfailingly perceptive about shifting power dynamics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 27, 2023

The film explores the reasons behind what becomes a pretty catastrophic failure in communication, and it does this with a great deal of humour and even some very well directed sequences that push the film into the realm of psychological thriller.

| Nov 23, 2023

…. what is said not only lacks any real bite but is supplemented with wishy-washy backtracking that makes it seem like the filmmakers were scared to make the audience feel confronted… and so made it uncomfortable in a completely different way.

| Original Score: 9.5/20 | Nov 22, 2023

The climax fatally over-stretches the source material, trading the story's uneasy ambiguities for a noisy mess of horror clichés and ludicrous character choices.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2023

Not a perfect adaptation, but it still works.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 6, 2023

... This blackly comedic thriller is three-quarters of a great cautionary tale about the perils of modern dating.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Nov 3, 2023

Indeed, it does play out a little too long, but I bought the characters.

| Nov 1, 2023

A fascinating disaster.

| Nov 1, 2023