Me and You and Everyone We Know
Metascore
76 out of 100

Generally favorable reviews - based on 38 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 32 out of 38
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 38
  3. Negative: 0 out of 38
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  1. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    100
    A film that with quiet confidence creates a fragile magic.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Ruthe Stein
    100
    Totally original yet filled with familiar human frailties, "Everyone" leaps off the screen to become one of those rare movie-going experiences.
  3. Premiere
    Reviewed by: Peter Debruge
    100
    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.
  4. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    100
    Definition eludes the delicate pleasures of this marvelous, idiosyncratic movie collage.
  5. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Scott Foundas
    100
    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.
  6. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Carina Chocano
    90
    Optimistic and humanistic to the core, Me and You and Everyone We Know is a paean to perseverance and finding ways to cope.
  7. The New Republic
    Reviewed by: Stanley Kauffmann
    90
    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.
  8. Rolling Stone
    Reviewed by: Peter Travers
    88
    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.
  9. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Allison Benedikt
    88
    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.
  10. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    88
    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.
  11. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Ty Burr
    88
    Remarkably, ''Me and You" doesn't shock so much as soothe.
  12. Baltimore Sun
    Reviewed by: Chris Kaltenbach
    88
    Disturbing, maddening, often confusing, but also charming, engaging and challenging in all the best ways.
  13. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Shawn Levy
    83
    Refreshing and disorienting movie.
  14. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    83
    A playfully offbeat, willfully wide-eyed tale of lonely, inarticulate people looking for connection in a disconnected world.

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User Score
6.9 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 138 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 60 out of 96
  2. Mixed: 10 out of 96
  3. Negative: 26 out of 96
  1. AoKuroiRaccoon
    7
    Brilliant, a fun and innovating way of introducing new and controversial concepts that all connect and hold in common the central element of love search. It really makes you think about everything you know and take it to the furthest extreme, twisting it and giving you a whole different perspective of it.… Full Review »
  2. Afinso
    4
    I like Indie movies but this past few years I learned that the Indie Trademark created by Sundance and the Cannes "Un Certain Regard" has lost its quality features. This film follows a recent trend of over analyzing everything that happens today in a fast passed and always changing society. This way of thinking, for me, is just a waste of time. I prefer living over thinking about living.… Full Review »
  3. Kingmush
    8
    http://mushreviews.blogspot.com/2011/03/me-and-you-and-everyone-we-know.html

    I will say straight up that I enjoyed this movie. However, it     is my "type" of movie (That is; quirky, random, etc.). So I might as well put a disclaimer of sorts and say that if you expect this movie to have a well defined plot/ending. This is not your movie. If you don't like movies such as Napoleon Dynamite or Eagle Vs. Shark. This is probably not your movie. On the flip side, if you do like those movies and you don't mind a seemingly loose written movie, then I say give it a shot.

    Basic plot of this movie is that it follows a few individuals and then in typical movie fashion brings them together and shows how interconnected they are. It follows a single father, his two sons, a old person taxi driver (Yes you read that right), and two teenage girls. Their stories are weird and incredibly awkward. But in the awkwardness you start to feel for the characters and at points I found myself really rooting for the characters or cringing when stuff didn't go their way.

    Overall I'd say the movie is pretty good. Weird throughout and slow at times but the stories themselves I found to be surprisingly emotional and well done. Give it a shot if you like the movies I listed above or if you want to watch an atypical indie romance/quirky film.    … Full Review »
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