Critic Reviews
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Metascore
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Dec 9, 2011
88
I still can't believe I Melt With You went there. Over the top, off the hook and just plain bonkers, it makes its mark.
Dec 22, 2011
75
You know how I realized I actually liked I Melt With You? I kept talking about it, and at one point, in the middle of mocking it, I accidentally referred to it as "a good picture." That's when I realized, yes, it really is good, albeit in ways that are different from other movies.
Dec 6, 2011
70
A compelling and disturbing drama about some elemental male issues.
Dec 8, 2011
35
In another light the group's - and the film's - portentous resolution looks a lot like quitting, in true slacker style.
Dec 6, 2011
30
A weekend romp for four middle-aged buddies devolves into a drug-fueled, suicidal hell in Mark Pellington's ill-conceived and executed I Melt With You, a work of extreme self-indulgence.
Dec 6, 2011
30
Stylish cinematography and an awesome punk-and-new-wave soundtrack make the early, music-video-like montages of debauchery at least trashy entertainment, but the film's second half couldn't be more contemptible.
Dec 6, 2011
20
An excruciatingly awkward stab at generational sympathy, I Melt with You presents a quartet of thickening college buddies gathering at a Big Sur rental house to mourn their lost ambition.
Dec 8, 2011
20
It almost seems unfair to mention that Carla Gugino shows up as a cop 80 minutes into these overlong proceedings; by then, viewers who walk out would never even have known that she was involved.
Dec 7, 2011
16
A movie about self-absorbed douchebags that wallows in their douchebaggery.
Dec 4, 2011
12
The only thing more narcissistically indulgent than the film's repugnant protagonists is Mark Pellington's iPod-scored, visually flashy, thoroughly hollow directorial celebration of them.
