80
Metascore
7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangHam on Rye is not obviously political, but it is also deeply political, pointing out, in lazy, absurdist, carelessly clever frames a deep-set American wrongness that was quietly murmuring away long before the current blowhard moment, and that will continue long after.
- 88Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe film’s purposeful archness challenges the sentimentality that marks many a film and real-life ceremony.
- 80The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyTaormina purposefully dresses his cast and designs their environment in a way that throws them into a sort of temporal never-never land. He achieves a number of other startling effects in this impressive movie, which sheds its naturalism slowly as it embraces a surrealism that’s both disquieting and poignant.
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe film never behaves as if it is anything other than a realist coming-of-age drama but there is something else going on.
- 75IndieWireRyan LattanzioIndieWireRyan LattanzioWhile the narrative hardly goes into the fully unhinged direction it teases, it’s pleasantly askew and always marching to its own strange and, slightly off, beat.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeQuiet and carefully made but cryptic, it relies on the viewer to complete its metaphors.