In a way, James White is like a dark riff on the man-child formula, but it also works as a devastating exploration of death and decay.

| Nov 15, 2023

"James White" is a difficult and unflinching look at both terminal illness and wasting one's life on selfish excesses.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 4, 2023

It gives a very brief, specific glimpse of a situation touching on the universal experience of loss, and through it delivers an incredibly strong drama.

| May 31, 2019

James White is not an enjoyable film, but it amply fulfills its goal in being a piece that resonates honestly with its audience.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 22, 2019

A minimal approach creates an unflinching character study that relies on performance over traditional narrative.

| Mar 4, 2019

A chillingly up-close-and-personal observation of a young man bubbling with so much emotion that he exists perpetually at the precipice of physical and psychological implosion.

| Feb 22, 2019

An unnervingly personal character study about alienation and self-pity in the millennial age.

| Nov 3, 2018

James White is a heartbreaking movie that runs on emotional adrenaline more than dramatic structure.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 28, 2018

James White will break you, leaving you sobbing your eyes out

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 4, 2017

Humble and unpretentious, James White is a frank portrayal of a young man (Christopher Abbott) who, shortly after his estranged father dies, learns that his mother's (Cynthia Nixon) cancer has returned with a vengeance.

| Nov 18, 2017

Josh Mond's movie is an unwavering gaze into an abyss, provided by absolutely stirring performances from his lead performers.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Dec 13, 2016

One of the year's most unfairly invisible successes.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 10, 2016

A film that criticizes society and the way it focuses on vanity and other superfluous things. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 28, 2016

Josh Mond's film feels like a careful curation of western cinephilia's most overdone narrative arcs and exhausted character clichs.

| Original Score: Not Recommended | Apr 1, 2016

One will never wish to go through precisely what White does, but losing one's parents is inevitable, and the film is a searingly authentic portrait of the process.

| Original Score: B+ | Feb 25, 2016

It's not easy viewing by any means. But it is strangely refreshing for a movie to show us that terminal illness involves agony and vomit and terror, despite what Beaches might have told us.

| Feb 24, 2016

This courageous film gets right up in the face of suffering and it doesn't flinch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 19, 2016

A low-key but devastating drama with more raw authenticity than a hundred examples of Sundance landfill.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 15, 2016

The movie... is so engaging there are times when it becomes almost overwhelming. But that is a glowing sign of how well the movie is acted and put together.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 7, 2016

"James White" can be a chore to sit through, but it's never completely without merit.

| Original Score: B- | Dec 31, 2015