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

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

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

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

Feeling embarrassed for Alice is natural - everything you don't want her to do, she does. It's like watching your favourite sport team losing a game over and over and over.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 27, 2016

To her great credit, Wiig manages to make Alice both engaging and annoying without ever rendering her ridiculous, lending heft to the film's portrait of her mental illness and televisual malaise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 27, 2016

As a mental illness narrative in particular, it feels perilously phoney.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2016

Welcome to Me is character comedy at its finest, and most perfectly judged, as the quirky powerhouse Kristen Wiig takes on the role of a lifetime.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 24, 2016

It's a mesmerising turn from Wiig, but the script leaves her working overtime to carry a story that doesn't delve much deeper than its initial premise.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 24, 2016

No shortage of talent here. Pity they're all underused.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 22, 2015

Welcome to Me is an unsettling comedy, and I mean that in the best possible way.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 22, 2015

"Welcome to Me" has its charming, funny and sensitive moments, but it also suffers from its own form of instability.

| May 14, 2015

It's a tricky business playing someone who is mentally ill and perhaps should be confined for observation, especially in a dark comedy. Wiig manages to make Alice funny as hell, endearing, sad and sometimes a little frightening.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.0 | May 8, 2015

There's dark comedy, and then there's take-no-prisoners, dare-you-to-keep-looking dark comedy. Kristen Wiig's "Welcome to Me" falls decidedly in the latter category, making us laugh but feel deeply unsettled about doing so.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2015

Screenwriter Eliot Laurence and director Shira Piven... [have] got the ideal star in Wiig, whose vacant gaze, frozen smile, and preternatural calm have always suggested a vast reservoir of madness.

| May 7, 2015

Welcome to Me is not sure if it wants to be an uncomfortable comedy or wry drama.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | May 7, 2015

The movie is small, but the actors make it seem larger, like binoculars turned around the right way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2015

At turns horribly funny and simply horrific, Piven's film suggests our therapeutic age has reduced us all to psychic cripples who resort to emotional exhibitionism in lieu of honest self-examination and self-expression.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2015

A nervy, discomfiting comedy starring Kristen Wiig and a deep bench of supporting talent.

| May 7, 2015

What starts out looking like a quirky attack on magical thinking turns out to be a sustained assault on television: the way it subsumes and distorts reality (more or less artfully) into a moneymaking enterprise.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 7, 2015

This is Wiig's show, and connoisseurs of the comedy craft will flip for her.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 7, 2015