Critic Reviews

• Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post

  As the characters unravel -- and how -- so too does the movie.

• Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times

  It contains such a gripping performance by Robin Wright Penn that it succeeds, in a way, despite itself. To see great work is a reason to see an imperfect movie, and to observe how the movie loses its way may be useful even if it's frustrating.

• Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune

  A preposterous screwball psychological drama called Sorry, Haters, a film roughly as successful as the phrase 'screwball psychological drama' implies.

• John McMurtrie, San Francisco Chronicle

  It's a well-meaning but ultimately feeble and misguided attempt to say something profound about the aftereffects of the 2001 attacks on New York.

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  That Penn and Kechiche are so committed to their roles only makes writer-director Jeff Stanzler's film more of a conundrum.

• Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

  [It's] such a fascinating story.

• Charles Cassady, Common Sense Media

  Stereotype- and expectation-busting indie drama.

• Prairie Miller, NY Rock

  A product of a younger, confused generation raised on a junk diet of corporate media propaganda and tabloid news substituting hip for history, it's distanced from any candid self-reflection, while demonizing women as the main source of global distress.

• Kam Williams, Upstage Magazine

  A psychological thriller with a cleverly-concealed subplot likely to surprise even the best of cinema sleuths.

• Prairie Miller, WBAI Web Radio

  A product of a younger, confused generation raised on a junk diet of corporate media propaganda and tabloid news substituting hip for history, it's distanced from any candid self-reflection, while demonizing women as the main source of global distress.

• Jeff Vice, Deseret News, Salt Lake City

  Does build steam as it goes, though the somewhat slow pacing works against it.

• Rob Thomas, Capital Times (Madison, WI)

  Many audience members will likely be turned off by the film's bizarre ending. I'd defend it, solely on the grounds that it is the appropriate finish for the entire misbegotten mess.

• Jack Garner, Rochester Democrat and Chronicle

  Despite moments of confusion in the script by director Jeff Stanzler, Sorry, Haters remains engrossing, largely because of Penn's superb portrayal.

• Jeffrey M. Anderson, Combustible Celluloid

  Ambitious but seriously confused social commentary.

• , L.A. Weekly

  Sorry, Haters trades in glib reversals, not complexities -- just about everyone is a crude stereotype turned on its head.

• Mark R. Leeper, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  The idea could and previously has been done well, but here it makes for a thoroughly unpleasant film experience.

• MaryAnn Johanson, Flick Filosopher

  [It's] all about how New Yorkers are dealing with the wake of 9/11, but the replication of that off-kilter feeling comes all in the structure of the story and the heightened sense of the absurd that it creates.

• Phil Villarreal, Arizona Daily Star

  Rather than lovers or haters, the film is most likely to find indifference from audiences.

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