Ingrid Goes West tells an engaging story with a strong, fascinating character study at the centre, but the film shocks with unbelievability towards the very end, and then, simply sends out a completely wrong message.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 9, 2024

Unexplored potential aside, there is a deeper issue which casts Ingrid Goes West, for me at least, in a pale rather than neon light.

| Dec 6, 2023

One of Plaza’s greatest talents is her ability to make you see and feel the most vulnerable parts of people—and this is beautifully on display in Ingrid.

| Feb 28, 2023

The film might've been a funny cringe comedy if it wasn't so disturbing and true. Unfortunately, Spicer does not adequately investigate his topic, and his titular character is denied personal growth.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 17, 2022

Aubrey Plaza is straight up super in it

| Jul 2, 2021

Grim social media satire that'll make you pop your phone in a bin.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 18, 2021

Co-writers David Branson Smith and Matt Spicer skewer both sides of the symbiotic social media relationship, lamenting the overall culture and how it has the capacity to so badly cause people to stray from who they really are...

| Apr 15, 2021

Earnest character work by Plaza, Olson, and O'Shea Jackson Jr., stylistically relevant visuals, and emphatic themes surpasses the script's numerous pitfalls.

| Mar 1, 2021

Spicer, though, finally drops the ball. In its final moments, Ingrid Goes West betrays its protagonist by crossing a line into all-out satire...

| Dec 11, 2020

Spicer is largely missing the real sources of acute social alienation and disorientation.

| Aug 27, 2020

It's the movie's treatment of Ingrid, though, that demonstrates Spicer's success . . . the episodes of depression [Ingrid] suffers from play out with a Cronenberg-esque decay tethered to reality.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 23, 2020

Relevant, timely, and uncomfortably close to home, Ingrid Goes West delivers a quirky, fun, brutally awkward, legitimately unsettling cautionary tale about influencer culture and social media obsession.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 1, 2020

In her hilarious "emoji-speak", Olsen's character might describe Ingrid Goes West as "hashtag funny-sad". And she'd be right.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 26, 2020

It's an emotionally charged, ambitious work that gives Plaza a great deal of room to show this character's unstable range of emotions. It's easily the best work she's ever done.

| May 12, 2020

It's a film that's unsettling, hilarious, and entirely itself.

| Feb 19, 2020

It's a carefully observed dark comedy, equal parts Sunset Boulevard, Heathers, and The Social Network, about how our emotional needs and self image are shaped by people we've never even met.

| Jan 16, 2020

Somehow, Ingrid Goes West manages to satirise the Instagram age without coming across as condescending or archaic. It's a darkly hilarious film, and one which could go down as 2017's hidden gem.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 23, 2019

It is a film that is as profoundly uncomfortable as it is bitingly funny, because its humor is so grounded in truth.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 4, 2019

A great story about friendship, about authenticity, about the value of humanity in the social media age.

| Apr 24, 2019

Instagram influencers provide the #laughs in this sly comedy, but the ending is seriously ill-judged.

| Apr 16, 2019