It’s really well done and just kind of odd but in a fun way.

| Sep 2, 2022

Everything is thrown into the grinder of a ridiculous final act that shreds any subtextual nuance about workplace power dynamics, sexual antics, and blind romance.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Aug 25, 2022

Baena and Brie keep the tone ambiguous, which is fine in theory and eventually unsatisfying in practice, as “Spin Me Round” keeps hinting at various moods (romance, comedy, suspense) without ever settling on one.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 20, 2022

Billed as a comedy-thriller, Spin Me Round could fairly be described as not quite funny enough to land as a comedy nor thrilling enough to be a thriller.

| Aug 19, 2022

Alison Brie and the cast are fantastic, but the story veers unsuccessfully from light to dark to silly.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 19, 2022

Not really a parody, not quite an homage. It remains in indie comedy mode, meaning it never has to be earnest or pick a tone or deliver the splashy aesthetic excess of the genres that it indicates.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2022

Every scene is interesting, and the film is often quite funny, but Nick's world is so seemingly dark and twisted, it's difficult to reconcile the two halves.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2022

Cleansed of all risk and personality, the film subsides, as though with a sigh, into the reheated sauce of mediocrity.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 19, 2022

Plaza, as always, is a master of deadpan with an underlay of recklessness and she and Brie play off each other beautifully.

| Original Score: B- | Aug 19, 2022

The film is ludicrous in its large strokes and pointed in its details

| Original Score: B | Aug 18, 2022

Sputters near its end as key characters fade into the background and its questions are met with only mildly satisfying answers, but it's never meant to be much more than a goof.

| Original Score: B | Aug 18, 2022

Takes only modest jabs at romantic comedy tropes, and is willing only to lightly sauté corporate culture instead of thoroughly roasting it.

| Original Score: C | Aug 18, 2022

Brie and Plaza are always good; the two of them together, balancing absurdity with a dose of seriousness, teetering on the brink of both, is a real highlight. Too bad there's not more of it. (That’s a buddy film I’d watch.)

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 15, 2022

A pleasant diversion punched up by an engaging cast and a scene-stealing cameo.

| Aug 11, 2022

Is this supposed to be some kind of sitcom? A thriller? A provocative #MeToo statement on sexual dynamics in the workplace? Yes, all of the above, it turns out.

| Mar 24, 2022

Spin Me Round has too talented a comedic cast to not earn some laughs but never finds a narrative foothold to give its absurdity purpose.

| Mar 22, 2022

Almost like the mediocre chain restaurant food that its heroine serves, its better if one can just enjoy it on its own terms instead of imagining what it might have been with a revised recipe.

| Mar 15, 2022

Amusing but the most lightweight of the five diverse features [Baena has] made so far...

| Mar 13, 2022

The undercurrent of dramatic self-discovery that runs through “Spin Me Round” is classic Baena, and one that works in fits and starts.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 13, 2022

Beana and Brie create a wacky comedy of errors in "Spin Me Round."

| Mar 13, 2022