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Me and You and Everyone We Know

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Me and You and Everyone We Know reviews
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6.8 User Score:

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Movie Info

Genre(s): Drama

Written by: Miranda July

Directed by: Miranda July

Release Date:
Theatrical: June 17, 2005
DVD: October 11, 2005

Running Time: 90 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: R for disturbing sexual content involving children, and for language

Starring Ellen Geer, John Hawkes, Brad William Henke, Miranda July, Jordan Potter, Brandon Ratcliff, Jason A. Rice, and Patricia Skeriotis

Me and You and Everyone We Know is a poetic and penetrating observation of how people struggle to connect with one another in an isolating and contemporary world. (IFC Films)

What The Critics Said

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100

Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum

Definition eludes the delicate pleasures of this marvelous, idiosyncratic movie collage.

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100

Premiere Peter Debruge

Every so often, a movie blindsides you, leaving you feeling different, enlightened, possibly even improved. Me and You and Everyone We Know is such a movie.

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100

LA Weekly Scott Foundas

By turns comic and tender, tragic and absurd. But throughout, it gives off what is surely one of the greatest of moviegoing pleasures -- the sense of an artist seeing the world from some private vantage that is as original as it is truthful.

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100

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

A film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic.

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100

San Francisco Chronicle Ruthe Stein

Totally original yet filled with familiar human frailties, "Everyone" leaps off the screen to become one of those rare movie-going experiences.

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90

The New Republic Stanley Kauffmann

It seems quite possible that Me and You marks the arrival of an artist who may affect--disturbingly yet helpfully--films and audiences to come.

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90

Los Angeles Times Carina Chocano

Optimistic and humanistic to the core, Me and You and Everyone We Know is a paean to perseverance and finding ways to cope.

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88

Chicago Tribune Allison Benedikt

It's a familiar dance, but something only July could invent, a vignette much like her characters: beautiful, flawed, organic--fine alone but better with the others.

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88

Boston Globe Ty Burr

Remarkably, ''Me and You" doesn't shock so much as soothe.

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88

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

Performance artist Miranda July hits a grand slam as the writer, director and star of her first film. It's a moonbeam romance laced with startling wit and gravity.

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88

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

Although Me and You and Everyone We Know requires patience on the part of the viewer - to get past the faux naivete of its grown-up characters, to get past its deadpan arty tone - Miranda July's feature debut is worth the time.

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88

Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach

Disturbing, maddening, often confusing, but also charming, engaging and challenging in all the best ways.

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83

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

Refreshing and disorienting movie.

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83

Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker

A playfully offbeat, willfully wide-eyed tale of lonely, inarticulate people looking for connection in a disconnected world.

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80

Washington Post Ann Hornaday

A wise, funny film about the little leaps of faith it takes to just get through the day.

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80

Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern

The distinction of this lovely, if slightly tentative, debut feature is its willingness to set forth mysteries of the human heart without solving them; everyone's fate stays unsealed.

80

Washington Post Desson Thomson

Hums with compassion for its outlandish, lonely but always sweet characters.

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80

The Onion (A.V. Club) Nathan Rabin

A quirkily funny, startlingly assured comedy-drama.

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80

The New York Times Dana Stevens

Though her movie has a clear narrative line, and might even be classified as romantic comedy, it is also a meticulously constructed visual artifact, diffidently introducing the playful, rebus-like qualities of installation art to the conventions of narrative cinema.

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80

Slate David Edelstein

Admirable and wondrously strange--as well as gorgeous, funny, dreamlike, mesmerizing, squirmy, and occasionally annoying.

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80

Newsweek David Ansen

Has a flavor all its own-sweet, whimsical, homegrown. A quirky romantic for the 21st century, July finds humor and magic in places where no one has looked before.

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80

Empire Liz Beardsworth

A frank look at 21st century mores, this succeeds in saying new things about anxieties as old as the human race.

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75

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Leah McLaren

Will make you glad to be living on the same planet as Miranda July.

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75

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

A mixed package, but often fun to watch.

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75

ReelViews James Berardinelli

Offbeat, daring, and the kind of offering Hollywood will never come close to embracing.

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70

Village Voice Jessica Winter

July's witty ode to only-connecting sustains a delicate tone of pensive whimsy.

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70

Variety Scott Foundas

Brings a fresh perspective to age-old human dilemmas.

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70

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

These characters are touching and sympathetic to the extent that they're lonely, and that's what most of them are most of the time.

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70

Film Threat Daniel Wible

A real treasure in the guise of yet another Sundance dramedy.

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67

Austin Chronicle Kimberley Jones

July sees the world in a most unexpected way, and it's a shame that Me and You's preciousness sometimes overwhelms that uniqueness of vision.

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63

USA Today Mike Clark

There are some notable oddballs in the filmmaking debut of performance artist Miranda July, whose lead performance in this Sundance winner for "originality" is the most appealing thing about it.

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63

Miami Herald Connie Ogle

Me and You and Everyone We Know brings to mind the work of happily downbeat, bad-boy provocateur Todd Solondz (Happiness, Palindromes), but July is more kind to her oddballs, although she displays a disturbing aptitude for perversity that Solondz would applaud.

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60

TV Guide Maitland McDonagh

The result is discomfiting, funny and oddly touching.

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50

New York Daily News Jack Mathews

A vanity project by a moderately talented artist that has moments of real brilliance in it.

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50

New York Post Lou Lumenick

Me and You takes a couple of neat swipes at the pretentiousness of the art scene, but as a commentary on the difficulty of connecting in contemporary society, it's too precious by half.

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50

The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt

A hit-and-miss affair. It has moments of unexpected, offbeat comedy, but most of the time neither the characters nor the situations engage the viewer.

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50

Dallas Observer Jean Oppenheimer

As an actress, she (July) is annoying as hell, with a quirkiness so labored, she seems to be begging for our affection. As a director she is much better.

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50

The New Yorker Anthony Lane

Just creepy and unsavory at moments, but pleased to be so.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 127 User Votes

Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

Kay O. gave it an8:
Touched my heart and my funnybone in a very charming and touching way. the weirdness of the characters' actions were a deft caricature of internal states we could find in so many of us.

Cables gave it a4:
One of the most pretentious films I've ever seen.

Steven F. gave it a0:
Quite possibly the single most pretentious movie ever made. I cannot stand quirkiness. It is too often substituted for character development (see Zach Braff films for ample examples), and in this film goes all-out with a bombardment of forced cuteness and make-believe enlightenment that makes one retch instead of even being mildly interested. Since when has putting nylons on a character's ears or having her touch stickers substituted for character development? Never, that's when. And then there was the little girl who collected for a dowry, which I guess was supposed to be a statement about womanhood, but was instead just annoying. Utterly abhorrently pretentious filmmaking of the worst kind.

Jeremy F. gave it a10:
Unbelievably, and UNEXPLAINABLY perfect in every way!

Chris B. gave it a0:
Crap. Shows the void that contemporary art is dominated by.

Rick V. gave it a10:
I loved it--a touching, human drama that was also funny and sad and very original in what it wanted to say.

Joe S. gave it a6:
It was enjoyable to watch; a lot of pretty images. But it doesn't add up to a movie. I can't believe all the 10's/100's. I really doubt people's/reviewers' credibility now. 10? 100? This movie is as good as it gets? This is as good as The Godfather and Gone With The Wind? Even Ebert gave it four stars. Now I have to doubt even him. A 10 or 100 means the best of the best. This movie -- enjoyable as it is -- is FAR from that. The words "masterpiece" and "masterwork" are thrown around so carelessly now. Incidentally, I agree that most of the risque child/teen sex-related material was unnecessary and served no dramatic purpose. An enjoyable

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