Golden Exits - Metacritic
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  • 2018
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Nick (Adam Horovitz) has settled into a safe existence in a small pocket of Brooklyn, where he currently toils on an archival project for his father-in-law. Soon, 20-something Naomi (Emily Browning) arrives from Australia to assist Nick for the semester. She has no acquaintances in the city beyond a loose family connection to Buddy (Jaso...

Directed By: Alex Ross Perry

Written By: Alex Ross Perry

  • 2018
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2018
  • R
  • Vertical Entertainment
  • 1 h 34 m
Golden Exits
Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
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Summary Nick (Adam Horovitz) has settled into a safe existence in a small pocket of Brooklyn, where he currently toils on an archival project for his father-in-law. Soon, 20-something Naomi (Emily Browning) arrives from Australia to assist Nick for the semester. She has no acquaintances in the city beyond a loose family connection to Buddy (Jaso...

Directed By: Alex Ross Perry

Written By: Alex Ross Perry

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
72
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15 Reviews
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
5% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 21 Critic Reviews
72
71% Positive
15 Reviews
24% Mixed
5 Reviews
5% Negative
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100
Feb 8, 2018
The more microscopic and incidental the movie gets — as in this candlelit conversation — the grander its cumulative force becomes.
By Danny King FULL REVIEW
90
Feb 15, 2018
This exquisitely textured ensemble portrait is a gentler, more forgiving piece of work, not least because the filmmaker's jabs — and his sympathies, such as they are — feel more evenly distributed.
By Justin Chang FULL REVIEW
83
Jan 28, 2017
Considering how Perry intricately carves out the understated instincts of each of these characters, it’s easily his most humane and emotionally complex film.
By Jordan Raup FULL REVIEW
80
Feb 15, 2017
An exquisitely rendered study of entitlement and millennial dissatisfaction.
By Patrick Gamble FULL REVIEW
67
Jan 28, 2017
With his intimacy drama Golden Exits, Perry strays from his typical fare of people behaving badly to, well, people behaving not quite as badly and certainly with more believable motivation.
By Kate Erbland FULL REVIEW
42
Feb 7, 2018
If Perry’s last film, the throwback psychodrama Queen Of Earth, used Bergman worship as a jumping off point for its own genre games, Golden Exits is just a tin-eared imitation: Interiors remade as a stilted exercise.
By A.A. Dowd FULL REVIEW
30
Feb 8, 2018
I tried to buy into the characters, to enjoy the performances on their own terms, but no dice. I saw only performers who, with one conspicuous exception, were working hard to ignite a glum drama that declined to combust.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Bow and Arrow Entertainment, Faliro House Productions, Faliro House Productions, Forager Films, Washington Square Films, Webber Gilbert Media
Release Date Feb 9, 2018
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating R
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Awards

Las Palmas Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
American Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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