A movie that gazes deep into its characters' unhappiness and emerges with something searching, sad - and perilously close to likable.

| Feb 15, 2018

Honestly, if it weren't for the performances this would probably be insufferable. But everyone in the film is good.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2018

While you'll salute Golden Exits for never going full-on Fatal Attraction, it ends up feeling cagey, trapped in the realm of the theoretical and too hip to raise its tensions above a simmer.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 15, 2018

The movie seems to be slowly pushing a needle into the lives that it scrutinizes, as if to draw a blood sample and learn what ails the characters.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 9, 2018

These narcissists declaim their insecurities and grievances in the language of personal essays. What they're saying may be petty and small, but the rhetoric and imagery are transfixing.

| Feb 9, 2018

Think early Whit Stillman without the archness, or Woody Allen without the schtick, self-seriousness or need for post-screening steel-wool shower, and you're almost there.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Feb 9, 2018

But to what end? Bergman, Cassavetes, and Allen excavated this material decades ago, and there are no new insights uncovered amid the interior lives of these husbands and wives.

| Feb 9, 2018

The steadfast refusal to follow through on the premise condemns the film to a state of dramatic constipation.

| Feb 8, 2018

I saw only performers who, with one conspicuous exception, were working hard to ignite a glum drama that declined to combust.

| Feb 8, 2018

The more microscopic and incidental the movie gets - as in this candlelit conversation - the grander its cumulative force becomes.

| Feb 8, 2018

Mr. Perry is such a good filmmaker that he can make the embarrassing and the unbearable insistently, fascinatingly engrossing (and often funny).

| Feb 8, 2018

The collective swell of a thousand nagging disappointments, both identifiable and not, make Perry's film strangely haunting despite the bourgeois mundanity of its events.

| Feb 7, 2018

Golden Exits makes one pine to escape the company of its second-rate Woody Allen characters.

| Feb 6, 2018

Alex Ross Perry's characters are shrewd enough to recognize the irrational contours of their lives, which they diagnose and chew over in some of the most inventive, twisty, and richly ironic dialogue in modern American cinema.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 4, 2018

It is Perry's masterpiece, and one of the finest American films I've seen in many years.

| Jun 15, 2017

These thoughtful people are paralyzed by their ability to look at their lives, and the lives around them, from too many angles. It's enlightening to listen to them, and perhaps a little too familiar.

| Jan 30, 2017

"Golden Exits" is Brooklyn Bergman, a drama of death pushing from behind and despair looming ahead.

| Jan 30, 2017

Nothing in the relationship dynamics here managed to stick.

| Jan 30, 2017

Sevigny is the surprisingly subtle beating heart of the whole affair, while Parker appears to be having a hell of a time being a classic Perry villain.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 30, 2017

Watching this tremendous, droll micro-masterpiece is like rummaging through a box of privileged misery and holding it up to a light.

| Jan 26, 2017