Didn't get it. Might have got it if I'd concentrated more, but I lost the will. Readers, I'm not proud of this, but will say it anyhow: I was baffled.

| Aug 31, 2018

| Original Score: A- | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 22, 2013

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2013

July is a filmmaker of distinct imagination and whimsy, and while there is a great deal on her mind and a ton she wants to say her delivery of it all, in my opinion at least, still leaves a bit of something to be desired.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 27, 2012

You end up feeling sorry for the cat but not for Sophie and Jason, who seem unable to deal with life, love or, in fact, anything.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 4, 2011

July's film-making is a taste I have yet fully to acquire, but she has a distinctive vision, a style, placed before you on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. I took it.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 3, 2011

July, who gave us the lovably odd Me and You and Everyone We Know, has layered on so much self-conscious whimsy - monologues from the cat, dialogues with the moon and other dashes of magical realism - that the central drama struggles to be heard.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 3, 2011

A playfully self-aware dig at the emptiness of some modern lifestyles that will make you check your own.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 3, 2011

Not a crowd-pleaser by any measure, but a mature, bold and recklessly inquisitive film, however unpleasant it is to consume in the moment.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 1, 2011

July's second film, while not quite as perfectly realised as her debut, nimbly avoids the 'sophomore slump', providing the curious with another window into her highly idiosyncratic world.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2011

Miranda July may be a bit too weird for her own good. On the other hand, it is a glorious weird.

| Original Score: A | Sep 2, 2011

Provides plenty of material for July junkies as well as July detractors.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 25, 2011

What a strange, trippy, touching movie The Future is.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 19, 2011

July is a provocative and honorably independent filmmaker, but given the meager rewards of investing our time, "The Future" wasn't worth the wait.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 19, 2011

At times - not all the time, just enough to notice - July gets it backward.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 18, 2011

Miranda July's second feature is beguiling, quietly funny and finally very sad in a way that sneaks up on you before becoming clear as the Los Angeles skies beneath which it's set.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 18, 2011

Not everything about "The Future" works. But most of it does, in a quietly powerful way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 18, 2011

The Future is a drab dramedy about thirtysomethings flailing about for self-definition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 12, 2011