Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
positive
0(0%)
mixed
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negative
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Jul 14, 2015
50
Mainly, though, Safelight is just a California tourism travelogue — See Scenic Joshua Tree, Visit the Lighthouses of Southern California. Which we do, in 80 odd-but-not-odd-enough minutes.
Jul 16, 2015
40
Safelight squanders the efforts of a talented cast who are unable to lift the material beyond its clichés.
Jul 16, 2015
38
Aloupis is not untalented as writer or helmer. But his first outing is an unsurprising, paint-by-the-numbers picture.
Jul 16, 2015
30
First-time filmmaker Tony Aloupis, formerly frontman of the New Jersey rock band Shadows of Dreams, serves up Americana like a stale slice of apple pie.
Jul 20, 2015
30
A handful of solid performances and some subtle ’70s period detailing are hardly enough to recommend this flat, predictable drama.
Jul 14, 2015
25
A bland and utterly predictable melodrama desperate to hide itself as a deft character study.
Jul 17, 2015
12
Bad movies are common. Shockingly bad movies, ones that are so incompetently conceived and executed as to force one to question how they got made, are less so, despite what Angry Film Twitter might have you believe. Safelight is a jaw-droppingly bad movie, a film that doesn’t have characters or a plot.
