It's that really well planned gag or stunt that can't match the real thing because it's been too manufactured to where the unpredictability is taken away or feels forced.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Jun 26, 2022

Wiig delivers a sensational performance in a film that deserves comparisons to uneasily funny titles like The King of Comedy and Being There, and perhaps like those films, it will only improve with age, reassessment, and time for clarity.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 21, 2022

Ultimately, it's like Alice herself: confused by what it wants to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 8, 2021

Welcome to Me, which she [Alice] designs and crafts every aspect of the production, provides her exactly what she needs, a medium where she is allowed to indulge in every aspect of herself...

| Jun 30, 2019

The supporting cast are excellent...but this remains the Kristen Wiig show. Welcome to Me deserves to be seen for her raw performance alone.

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

"Welcome to Me" largely refrains from going in the obvious direction and hits its marks more often than not, hitting them hard either with stinging humor or shrewd observation or both simultaneously.

| Nov 15, 2018

Wiig's deranged but sympathetic performance carries a lot of the film's weight effortlessly ...

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 2, 2018

If only Alice Krieg had directed it herself.

| Aug 31, 2018

Kristen Wiig continues to grow as a performer in "Welcome to Me," which makes use of her singular comedic gifts, tempered in this film with a truly weird streak of drama and pathos.

| Aug 22, 2018

It takes a soaring talent to pull off the part of Alice, and Wiig is the perfect fit.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2018

Funny, frank and a little bit heartbreaking

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 13, 2018

This is one of those discomfiting films where you don't know whether to laugh or cry - Alice is self-obsessed and a bit unlikable too - and just end up feeling uncomfortable instead.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 24, 2017

While she doesn't really humanize Alice, Wiig delivers an impressive blend of awkwardness, humor and pathos that elevates the story, even though it isn't enough to mask its flaws.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 1, 2017

I'm not sure if Welcome to Me is one of the best films of the year so far-it genuinely might be-but it's definitely the weirdest.

| Aug 2, 2017

Veering suddenly and wildly between sharp comedy and sharper tragedy, Shira Piven's bold indie rests almost entirely on Wiig, who offers up a fearless performance.

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

Wiig delivers a standout performance that manages to make Alice at once interesting, humorous, irritating and infuriating, but always successfully stops just short of making her an object of ridicule.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jun 9, 2016

A funny and touching Kristen Wiig walks an acting tightrope in this dark comedy.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2016

Wiig's depiction of a woman whose stories are apt to end with the declaration "then I went off my meds" is as disquieting as it is scarily accurate.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 28, 2016

Ultimately, you are tempted to conclude that the film is a bit like Alice's chat show: a vanity project.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 3, 2016

Whatever the state of your mental health, you'll want to follow Alice down the rabbit hole.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 27, 2016