Yuck! Horrible movie; charades as a vehicle of epiphany; just saps audience' time. 1 hour, 29 minutes I will never get back. To get things straight, children of the 80s and early 90s in Australia absolutely grew up with "who's the boss"! American movies love framing Australians as backward, hick or deprived in some way. 🤮

I've liked some of Alex Ross Perry's films in the past, but this isn't one of them. Just found it to be torturous to watch, with stiff and stilted dialogue plus quite unlikable characters. Seemed to all end up in pretentious babble, I'm sorry to say.

The film was shot in 15 days. It felt like it took that long to watch it. The character development had potential, but it was a paradise lost. The New York setting could have been utilyzed to it's benefit, but it was nowhere to be found. I kept hanging on for some plot development. It went down like a leak in an ignored tire... very slowly. I've rated movies this poorly due to gratuitous sex. That would have improved this loser.

Boring and too artsy for its own good. Golden Exists has a terrible plot and a worse script.

There are some movies that are so bad that they become fascinating to watch just to see how bad they can be. This movie isn't bad. It isn't much of anything. However, it does take the feeling of boredom to levels at which it becomes inverted. The boredom that this movie generates becomes an end in itself. Don't expect to learn anything or feel anything with this movie. it just exists and that is about all I can say about it.

It's just like noon soap opera

loved the cinematography and the way it was shot. the story and dialogue felt artsy fartsy and flew way over my head though.

How is Alex Ross Perry this good?

Inane "troubled" New Yorkers--who ARE these people? Boring and trite.

I love good dialogue drama, but this is why so many people avoid it. It's a boring contemplation of navels, by people without a life compass or any idea what fulfillment is. Though one character surprisingly gets his stuff together, overall it's not a spoiler to say that the last line of the movie is a fitting epitaph for the rest of them--"Is that all there is?"

There was so much potential here for an absorbing character driven piece. The acting is good, but the film never fully delivers on its promise. The interesting idea, sadly becomes dull.

It was like getting strapped into a 2 hour long episode of The Bold and The Beautiful, replete with long wistful stares off camera, tinkling piano and ridiculous love triangles. Horribly indulgent self referential dialogue as characters endlessly droned on. Having watched it among the respectful audiences of MIFF this year, I felt a sense of rising panic as I realised half way through that I couldn't actually walk out of the cinema and save the remaining hour of my life.

Ugh. Utterly pointless and completely pretentious.

Golden Exits tells the story of an intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides. Overall, Golden Exits is a dynamic indie masterful piece. It's one of the finest films I've seen overall, and is a great American classic. This film is so really worth the time to watch. Director Alex Ross Perry proves that Golden Exits is his masterpiece. I enjoyed it's screenwriting, and Emily Browning's magnificent performance.

It is an absolute treat for the fans of Alex Ross Perry, but also works for people who are not familiar with his previous films and style. "Golden Exits" is Perry's least abrasive and most accessible film to date, a sharply-written observational drama that is funny, complex, and thoroughly entertaining. I went into it not knowing what it's about, and I ended up having a lot of fun with it. One of the things I love about Perry's works is the fact that he creates complex female characters; women in his films are not just some colorful eye candies that need men to love them. They are fleshed-out characters with feelings, people that we can identify and sympathize with. I loved the subtlety brought by Emily Browning (always wonderful), Chloe Sevingny (the quiet beating heart of the story), Analeigh Tipton (god, I love her in EVERYTHING!), and Mary-Louise Parker is having one hell of a time playing a villainous character. Beautifully shot and superbly written, although there were moments in it that made me think, "No one talks like that. That's totally movie dialogue." Perhaps there are too many fade-to-black transitions and the resolution is slightly unsatisfactory, but for the most part I found it very amusing and fascinating. Big thumbs up!