SummaryThe rivalry between two former college friends comes to an extreme fracas when they both attend the same glamorous event.
Directed By:Onur Tukel
Written By:Onur Tukel
Catfight
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66
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
66
59% Positive
10 Reviews
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41% Mixed
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Mar 3, 2017
75
Tukel takes that tired cliché and blows it to smithereens. Let's hear it for unvarnished hatred expressed with no holds barred.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.6
52% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
28% Mixed
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Oct 22, 2020
8
The movie is a success in that it definitely achieves what it sets out to. It's engaging, sometimes funny, sometimes shocking. Both actress' performances are convincing enough that you find yourself drawn into their characters' worlds and can't help but root for both of them despite their obvious flaws and stubborn animosity towards one another. But the real kick comes at the end when you step back and it sinks in that the whole time, the feelings you experienced weren't solely representative of an attachment to these characters but to the people and parties that they so clearly personify. It then makes sense why the entire film feels somewhat familiar and intimate. It's the mark of successful allegory that you already somehow know how this story goes.
Jan 24, 2021
7
Sandra Oh is from Toronto like me so I gotta give her kudos for THAT! Wuuuhahahahaa! Anne Heche of course, is the ultimate scary lesbian, so kudos to her too. It was entertaining enough and mildly funny.
Mar 2, 2017
70
Catfight is the type of blackly comic film that works to alienate some viewers with its over-the-top approach and its unlikable characters. But those who enjoy its dark humor will cackle with mean-spirited delight.
Sep 16, 2016
67
No matter its flaws, Tukel’s witty inversion of the buddy movie formula — set in an embellished world riddled by wartime dysfunction — has some legitimate ideas about the way feuds can last so long that neither side remembers what they’re fighting over.
Mar 9, 2017
60
Sheer novelty powers this confrontational curio, up to a point. But the nastiness cuts both ways.
Sep 16, 2016
60
This odd, nasty yet rather funny little film tears apart ideas of sisterhood and female friendship and replaces them with burning hate and gratuitous violence.
Feb 28, 2017
50
Onur Tukel attempts to connect Ashley and Veronica’s barbarity to the broader callousness of American life, but the satire is too blunt to really stick.
Jun 30, 2017
7
While it sometimes borders on the ridiculous, the intensity and dedication that Oh and Heche bring to their roles makes this an entertaining satire on Western culture and an interesting look at how we treat one another.
Jan 7, 2021
6
This nasty yet funny movie gets by just on the performance of it's leads, particularly Sandra Oh.
Jun 4, 2019
6
MEH. It's barely funny enough to keep watching. It could have been so much better in so many ways, but it's all so loose and poorly timed that it never really comes together. I'm usually a fan of Sandra Oh, but not in this case.
Dec 11, 2022
5
The narrative resource used by this plot is tragicomic in the first part, when Sandra Oh's character suffers her total collapse, you are involved as a viewer, but when that storyline stops walking and we reach the point where the same thing happens to Anne Heche's character, the movie was already running basically on life support, proof of that is the stupidity of its ending. Both actresses deserved much better.
Production Company:
- MPI Media Group
- Anjuna Pictures
Release Date:Mar 3, 2017
Duration:1 h 35 m
Tagline:A black and blue comedy
