Critic Reviews

• Loren King, Chicago Tribune

  An uneven mix of genres that, even when it misses the mark, gets points for originality and a good beat.

• Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel

  You'll be entertained and utterly engrossed in this deceptively challenging little thriller.

• Richard Nilsen, Arizona Republic

  Suffers from unlikable characters and a self-conscious sense of its own quirky hipness.

• Peter Howell, Toronto Star

  The look and sound of something a little different.

• Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times

  Feels aimless for much of its running time, until late in the film when a tidal wave of plot arrives, leaving questions in its wake.

• Joe Baltake, Sacramento Bee

  Driven by Tunney's endearingly offbeat, oddball performance.

• Nick Rogers, Suite101.com

  Robin Tunney turns Zoe's socialization and investigation into little revelations - sculpting her magnetic, melancholy presence as perfectly as her buff body in third-act action where she sheds, and draws, blood for a climax driven by robust reclamations.

• Felix Vasquez Jr., Cinema Crazed

  A funny, tense, and edgy movie with an excellent performance by Robin Tunney...

• Dragan Antulov, Draxblog Movie Reviews

  nothing more than interesting failure

• Thomas Delapa, Boulder Weekly

  ...deserves better than its early exit from theaters. How can you possibly dismiss the irrepressible Robin Tunney?

• Brian Gibson, Vue Weekly (Edmonton, Canada)

  The mystery here is not the identity of the shadowy man who got Zoe into this mess, but which movie Taylor intended to emerge from Cherish's cinematic muddle.

• David Nusair, Reel Film Reviews

  Cherish would've worked a lot better had it been a short film.

• Bryant Frazer, Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

  A movie about mistrust of the system, personal inertia, and the melancholy stasis of everyday life.

• Chad Bixby, Film Threat

  It's a strained romantic comedy that starts promisingly, takes a hard left turn and slowly falls apart.

• James Rocchi, Netflix

  Drama-thriller-romance with lite music and heavy subtext is a slight near miss, but still fascinating.

• Jean Lowerison, San Diego Metropolitan

  A lame romantic comedy about an unsympathetic character and someone who would not likely be so stupid as to get involved with her.

• Philip Martin, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

  ...Tunney is allowed to build an uncommonly human character, an almost real-live girl complete with trouble and hope.

• James Sanford, Kalamazoo Gazette

  Although it doesn't always hang together -- violence and whimsy don't combine easily -- "Cherish" certainly isn't dull.

• Marshall Fine, Journal News (Westchester, NY)

  Turns into the most routine of stories, its originality discarded in favor of a template for a story we've seen dozens of times before.

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