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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 84TheWrapWilliam BibbianiTheWrapWilliam BibbianiIt’s immediate and specific and painful and impressive.
- 75RogerEbert.comNell MinowRogerEbert.comNell MinowFamiliar, even universal issues of growing up, identity, and intimacy are presented with a lyrical, dreamlike tone.
- 68Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganWhile this suspension of narrative convention is a welcome deviation from the cut-and-dry formula of many coming-of-age films, Giants Being Lonely stops just short of actually saying something salient.
- Everything is subtext, as scenes float by with little grounding or purpose outside of compositional beauty.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreThe obvious artifice doesn’t change the film’s essential adolescent truth. High school is all about “being lonely.”
- 60Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonGiants Being Lonely may not add much to the landscape of coming-of-age dramas, yet the preciseness of its impressionism results in a striking atmosphere of hormones and vulnerability.
- 60VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe film asks us to indulge and share the privacy of its characters. That’s its moody, free-floating allure.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschEven when it grows too enamored of its own lyrical driftiness, there’s undeniable skill in Patterson’s use of space, color and sound. The movie might have worked as a mood piece; at times it almost does.
- 20The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergNothing concrete emerges from this haze of oblique editing and barely written scenes, acted by cast members who are not up to making the dialogue sound convincing or filling the voids left in place of their characters.