... if you’re a fan of Johnson (and if you’re not, why are you here?), Self Reliance has its charms, particularly those stemming from the actor’s near-perfect comic timing and delivery.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2024

For a movie with such a nose for nuttiness, its human element is genuine and warm.

| Jan 11, 2024

The movie is too juvenile and too timid to acknowledge the real-world chill of its online cabal of murderous social misfits. The issue is not whether Tommy will survive, but why we should hang around to find out.

| Jan 11, 2024

There are many laughs in “Self Reliance,” but overall the story is somewhat predictable and peters out to an unsatisfying resolution.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 10, 2024

Blissfully, it overcomes the self-indulgence of some of its “isolation is hard” contemporaries through a heaping helping of Johnson’s keen sense of everyman absurdism.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 9, 2024

Should have been weirder and wilder.

| Mar 16, 2023

In the hands of another director, its final act might have been more sharply honed. But it's undeniable that Self Reliance still hits its mark.

| Mar 16, 2023

There is such potential in Johnson’s script, but the third act is all over the place.

| Mar 15, 2023

[Jake] Johnson’s film is certainly not a complete failure but it is inelegant and shoddy despite its best attempts at charm and affecting thematics.

| Mar 14, 2023

Johnson and Kendrick are just terrific together.

| Original Score: B | Mar 12, 2023

An undeniably ambitious project for a first-time filmmaker, but it's a tonal tightrope that should have been attempted with a bit more behind-the-camera experience.

| Mar 12, 2023

Coming up for connection, Johnson delivers a silly and frequently surprising why-we-need-people parable.

| Mar 12, 2023