The film, as with the book, captures how the mood in the city shifted post 9/11 and how much of the euphoria of the millennium seeped away, and it does capture some of the key events that shaped the city throughout the 2000s.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 19, 2023

Southern and Lovelace have built a time capsule: as they are only using of-its-day footage and interviews, we have no context for the acts' ongoing evolution and impact.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 22, 2023

Affectionate, in the moment, revealing, reverent: Meet Me in the Bathroom hits all of those notes.

| Mar 18, 2023

The nostalgic pull of the era's footage really talks to me now that I'm older. But compared to the book, Meet Me in the Bathroom: The Movie is spread far too thin.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 17, 2023

This is more of a family photo album than a museum piece, a collection of musty Polaroids... As a companion piece to Goodman’s book, however, it will always be in the shade.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 16, 2023

A really well-assembled account of the people and the music they made.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 16, 2023

The filmmakers, for their part, bring to bear a feel for the material garnered in the making of Shut Up and Play the Hits...

| Mar 16, 2023

We get a heartfelt account of Karen O’s upbringing but little context on the other subjects or, indeed, the scene’s implosion as the effects grew of Rudy Giuliani’s cabaret laws, extreme gentrification, corporate demands and substance abuse.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2023

... The film’s archive footage of people in cheap apartments and graffiti-filled dressing rooms sets the mood perfectly.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 13, 2023

Meet Me In The Bathroom never digs beneath the surface of what made the scene special...However, as a burst of nostalgia it will more than satisfy those 30 somethings who have traded their skinny jeans and Converse for a business suit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 12, 2023

If at times maddeningly vague, it’s rescued in its final third by the emergence of LCD Sound System, whose anti-social 30-something frontman James Murphy becomes the film’s most compelling character.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 10, 2023

Meet Me in the Bathroom is an appropriately raw and urgent documentary about the music scene that flourished in New York after the fall of the Twin Towers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2023

Beyond the music, Meet Me in the Bathroom makes a compelling study of the whole idea of a scene.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2023

Meet Me In The Bathroom is best in the unspoken moments, where it conjures an electric sense of New York’s fertile indie music valley.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2023

The movie revives the memory of white-hot NYC bands in their pouting pomp: the Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Rapture and Interpol, and contextualises them with the global tragedy of 9/11 and the growing upheavals in New York and the music industry itself.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2023

The main revelation of Meet Me in the Bathroom ... is that these people were actually a bunch of nerds.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Nov 22, 2022

What’s strange about this cinematic expansion is how heavy it is, how repeatedly insistent it is on the importance of what we’re seeing...

| Nov 22, 2022

I like at least some of these bands, from a little to a lot, and Bathroom is an entertaining scrapbook of the prolonged moment when they all seemed to constitute one “scene,” as disparate as they were/are.

| Nov 18, 2022

Like a well-curated sampler CD... It's cool, but you'll be left wanting full albums of the bands you liked anyway.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2022

While this one will be rewatchable for fans of the bands (like myself), it does little to offer an olive branch to those who know little about this scene.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Nov 13, 2022