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P.S. Your Cat Is Dead!
Metascore
33 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 11 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 11
  3. Negative: 4 out of 11
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  1. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Hazel-Dawn Dumpert
    60
    It's Boyar who’s the find here, though, a gently magnetic presence who's all the more impressive for being thoroughly riveting despite spending most of the movie face-down on a counter.
  2. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Lou Lumenick
    50
    The performances are solid, but as a screenwriter, Guttenberg can't make the situation seem like more than a theatrical construct in a contemporary setting.
  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Elliott Stein
    50
    Intermittently engaging and moving, P.S. has gathered a bit of dust over the years. Still, it's nicely acted by the small cast.
  4. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Kim Morgan
    42
    If the movie wasn't about an actor but instead about an insurance salesman or a plumber who looked like James Gandolfini, it might come off better. But then, who says a plumber would care either?
  5. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    40
    Despite strong portrayals by Guttenberg and his co-star, Lombardo Boyar, and sequences that attempt to open the play up, it remains too much a filmed play, and worse, one that has not been effectively paced. As a result, it doesn't come alive until it's drawing to a close that's unexpectedly touching, if more than a little sentimental, but too late to redeem the preceding tedium.
  6. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Dave Kehr
    40
    Mr. Guttenberg's direction of "Cat," is competent and unadorned, bringing out whatever qualities the text possesses -- mainly good-naturedness.
  7. Variety
    Reviewed by: Dennis Harvey
    40
    Lacking the knockout lead perfs or more whimsical tone that might have transcended script's dubious logic, pic comes off as a so-so theatrical stunt delivered via the wrong medium.
  8. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    Doesn't play on the screen. P.S. Your Cat is Dead is a stage-locked, two-character play on a static set, and though Guttenberg takes it outside for a couple of scenes, it remains that on film.
  9. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    Boyar's best efforts -- which are quite good -- can't begin to compensate for Guttenberg's grotesque excesses or make the weirdly warm relationship that develops between them convincing, let alone appealing.
  10. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    25
    Feels so moldy and out of date.
  11. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    10
    Guttenberg adapts James Kirkwood Jr.'s humanist black comedy -- and drains all the recognizable humanity out of it, turning it into a morose, unlikable reflection of its sad-sack lead character.
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