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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe filmmakers’ handling of the surprises has a narrative deftness and visual cleverness that is legitimately unbalancing. It also adds a blast of dark comedy to the proceedings.
- 80The VergeBryan BishopThe VergeBryan BishopI Think We’re Alone Now is a tone poem of a movie, telling its story with lush, vivid imagery, and quiet, nuanced performances. Its slow, methodical pacing may not appeal to all moviegoers, and the film’s final act doesn’t entirely work. But it’s nevertheless a beautiful meditation on loneliness and the walls we put up to deal with grief and loss.
- 75The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodAs always, Dinklage is exquisite in a mostly silent performance that conveys the pain and survivor’s guilt Del has bottled up inside him following the incident.
- 70In the end, I Think We’re Alone Now isn’t very interested in constructing a mythology or exploring the apocalypse itself. It’s more of a relationship drama, one that works as a showcase for two great performances against a post-apocalyptic backdrop that ups the stakes
- 60VarietyAmy NicholsonVarietyAmy NicholsonOnce I Think We’re Alone Now establishes that Grace and Del represent love versus stability, the film doesn’t have a convincing way to reconcile the two.
- 50The A.V. ClubVikram MurthiThe A.V. ClubVikram MurthiUnfortunately, I Think We’re Alone Now stops being interesting right when Grace (Elle Fanning) comes to town, mostly because she brings screenwriter Mike Makowsky’s trite ideas about loneliness and community along with her.
- 42IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid EhrlichRather than forge a believable relationship between Grace and Del that stokes our interest in the future, this uneasy two-hander strings us along by raising dull questions about the past.
- 40New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinAfter its intriguing start, the movie gets dumb and dumberer. “Third-act problems,” concluded many in the Sundance audience. But the first two acts have issues, too.
- 40Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversEven Dinklage and Fanning can’t give this failed experiment a heartbeat. You won’t wish for the end of world while watching I Think We’re Alone Now, just the end of the movie.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyDramatically and philosophically void and unprovocative on the grand scale of apocalyptic speculative fiction, this low-budget indie is somber and dreary on a moment-to-moment basis and leaves its talented cast stranded with few opportunities to alleviate the sense of stasis.