48
Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawXavier Dolan’s It’s Only the End of the World is histrionic and claustrophobic: deliberately oppressive and pretty well pop-eyed in its madness – and yet a brilliant, stylised and hallucinatory evocation of family dysfunction.
- 60Screen DailyCharles GantScreen DailyCharles GantThe film’s dialogue has ample tang of real family discourse, but it often fails to rivet.
- 58The Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaThe Film StageGiovanni Marchini CamiaWhile he does, to an extent, stifle some of his more adolescent instincts in comparison to earlier films (e.g. Laurence Anyways and Mommy), Dolan generally appears to have mistaken maturity for joylessness.
- 42The PlaylistJessica KiangThe PlaylistJessica KiangHaving recruited as fine a cast of French-speaking thesps as has ever been assembled, and marshalled a strong behind-the-camera team, Dolan’s usually exuberant egotism is here taken so seriously that what we’re left with is a shrieking bore, without a single character worth rooting for, least of all the puddle of maudlin self-pity at its center.
- 40CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleThe material is weak, overly familiar and cliché-ridden. Dolan throws the cinematic sink at it but his latest feels like a shorter, not particularly watchable sequel to August, Osage County.
- 40Time Out LondonCatherine BrayTime Out LondonCatherine BrayUnfortunately, because it's so cinematically inert, all that craft and talent seems wasted. Let's hope his next film sees him working on another Dolan original.
- 40The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe director finds himself stymied by weak source material — Jean-Luc Lagarce's 1990 play about a young man who returns home to tell his family he's dying — and only intermittently well served by his starry French cast.