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

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

The people examined by the film are as paper thin as the pixels that make the images on their phones, and have as much depth as an evaporated gully.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 27, 2018

This comedy needed to be made. It has its flaws, but it's better than we had a right to expect.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 29, 2017

The picture's greatest asset is its star and producer, Aubrey Plaza, who has a name like a suburban shopping mall and a face like sarcasm personified.

| Nov 20, 2017

Ingrid Goes West indulges our worst impulses in the grand quest to gain more likes, followers and attention.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 20, 2017

By the time the film builds to a conclusion full of forced conflict, the subtle insight of its early scenes feel as forgotten as a Facebook message you haven't replied to in a month.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 19, 2017

The film is very sharp on how young women use social media as self-actualisation, to create intimacy, and to bolster feelings of connection, as well as Instagram's addictive, toxic qualities.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 19, 2017

... after an opening montage that ridicules the worst excesses of social-media myth-making ("This is me and my wonderful life!"), the movie has little left to say.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2017

An appealing cast gives its all to a highly-charged satire that stays as skin-deep as a selfie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2017

Writer-director Matt Spicer makes his feature debut with a horribly enjoyable satire, painted in hard-edged, acrid colours: the colours of an Instragram post, in fact.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2017

The satire here works so well precisely because it is so accurately observed.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 15, 2017

A very smart take on the stalker movie, which resists easy laughs for harder truths, and might make you think twice the next time you're lining up a photo for social media.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 14, 2017

Ingrid Goes West is a chilling indictment of our image-driven culture, a withering dissection of artificiality versus authenticity. It's worth seeking out because this penetrating and darkly witty movie deserves to be seen.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 30, 2017

[Matt] Spicer has certainly hit his target. But 97 minutes spent in this company is just too hard to bear.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 25, 2017

The cast is stellar-Ingrid is, objectively, a horrible person, but we feel for her anyway.

| Sep 8, 2017

The experience is akin to being kneaded by a cat - now soft paws, now sharp claws, alternatingly sweet and deeply uncomfortable.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 25, 2017

"Ingrid Goes West" is a sharp, insightful modern day stalker fantasy, "Single White Female" through a Valencia Instagram filter.

| Original Score: B | Aug 25, 2017

Plaza, of course, is marvelous in the title role, embracing Ingrid's unflattering neediness with a commitment that's scary.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 24, 2017

Aubrey Plaza is brilliant in "Ingrid goes West," Matt Spicer's smart, satirical and sometimes scathing takedown of the vapidity social media sometimes injects into life.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2017