Nonureva Really Surprised!

RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Brainsbell The story-telling is good with flashbacks.The film is both funny and heartbreaking. You smile in a scene and get a soulcrushing revelation in the next.

Juana what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

jrose8524 I have seen both of this film maker's movies. I enjoyed the first one, Film Geek and The Auteur was festive, if a mess at times.I made it 21 minutes into this flick before giving up. I cannot speak of the rest of the film, but by this point I wanted to take an Uzi to the entire production. I found none of the characters well drawn or compelling. The use of racist language was so off-putting that I gave up.I hated Meris. I hated that she loved her stupid, pathetic husband. I loathed and despised his so-called friends. Everyone was creepy and poorly written and pathetically shot and hideously performed/directed. It looked like something they wrote in a fit and thought it was somehow interesting or compelling. I've seen pornography that was better written.Stilted, dialogue, stupid lighting choices, it isn't worth my time. I hope, if you enjoyed it, that it was worth yours.

El Joe Cabron Its always amusing to see the very first reviews being honest and negative. Than the people involved in this movie always try to bury the negative reviews by covering how bad this movie is with "positive comments" on how much they liked it with out explaining why. The movie gives no real reason why to like the main female character. The movie just annoyed the crap out of me, the characters are stereotypically fake as hell. Every single person filmed in this movie needs to be slapped across the face because of how much they annoy you. This movie has too many obvious "oh gee what bad luck" moments. It feels more of a home video than a movieYeah just bad and boring and very frustrating to watch adults trying to act like they are still 12 years old doing underage drinking. FAIL FAIL FAIL

The_late_Buddy_Ryan There are good bad movies (as favored by the likes of Juno and Quentin Tarantino) and bad good movies like this one. I won't spoil the opening scene, a flashforward, except to say that we see two young women with their carts in a grocery store, one kind of punky, the other kind of preppy; the punky one accosts the preppy and does something pretty creepy that makes the preppy scream. The punky one walks away with a satisfied smile, and you may find it hard to stop watching after that. (Full disclosure: my wife found it all too easy…) Katie O'Grady does just fine as Meris, a sweet, self-contained young woman (though we recognize her as the punky girl from the opening scene), nervous as a whippet, who can't catch a break from her husband's high-school buds and their mean-girl wives when they relocate from California to his hometown in Oregon. When husband Mitch's old girlfriend (played, in a bit of overdetermined casting, by busty 6' cabaret singer Storm Large) turns up, the die is cast. "I hate alternative lifestyle people," says one of the film's minor characters, a prissy clerk in a candy store, but surely such people are the only conceivable audience for this film. After Mitch does what's expected, Meris tries out a new bizarro-world identity as an over-age riot grrrl, then slowly gropes her way back to where she once belonged. Writer-director James Westby seems more comfortable writing dialogue for the manager of an all-vinyl record store, say, than for a biker or a freak grrrl or an IT guy with a wife, a lawn and a dog, and the script gets very shaky at times. There's a flimsy subplot, for example, in which Meris makes friends with a Middle Eastern–looking couple with a cute baby, then shuns them after Mitch's dufus posse starts jabbering about "sand (N words)" with "Al Qaeda connections." You'd think that at that point Meris would be delighted to find a few friends of her own who weren't hostile jackasses. (And till then, btw, I'd assumed the woman with the baby was supposed to be Israeli.) To sum up, then, it's not "A Letter from Three Wives" or "Annie Hall," but "Rid of Me" is still good, harmless streaming Netflix fun, and there's a fine soundtrack; the cultist South Asian rock (Cambodian in this case) from the 60s seemed like a bit of a rip from "Ghost World" but at least that's stealing from the best.

Dr. Kenneth Noisewater The opening scene, as is mentioned in many reviews, is not the "hook" they intended, and you might click your Roku back to Menu, but give it a chance and this film will break your heart. It's so real and true, I've met all these people, I've even been some of them. The directing is subtle and jumps around like a mosaic, but I got it. And the awkwardness is well done. This is a terrible comparison, but think of the silent, awkward moments in The Office. Instead of being funny, these situations are so cruel but so real and familiar that you believe them. We've all encountered these things at some point, but here, no one steps in for the downtrodden protagonist. She's left out in the cold over and over again. It's one of those films you stay with until the end of the credits.