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Mixed or average reviews- based on 28 Ratings

  • Summary: When Sophie and Jason decide to adopt a stray cat, their perspective on life changes radically, literally altering the course of time and space and testing their faith in each other and themselves. (Roadside Attractions)
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 19 out of 28
  2. Negative: 1 out of 28
  1. Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    Aug 3, 2011
    91
    As she did in her striking 2005 debut, "Me and You and Everyone We Know," July creates a fluid cinematic universe.
  2. Reviewed by: David Hughes
    Oct 31, 2011
    80
    July's second film, while not quite as perfectly realised as her debut, nimbly avoids the 'sophomore slump', providing the curious with another window into her highly idiosyncratic world.
  3. Reviewed by: Joshua Rothkopf
    Jul 26, 2011
    60
    The mood of this movie will brew with you for a while, even if it swirls around characters who aren't quite persuasive.
  4. Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    Jul 24, 2011
    38
    Of all the vaguely philosophical, calculatedly left-of-center dialogue that peppers Miranda July's The Future, no line is more telling than the writer/director/star's late-film declaration, in the guise of her character Sophie, that "I'm saying okay to nothing."

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 6 out of 11
  2. Negative: 4 out of 11
  1. A breathtaking and unbelievably innovating movie, truly some of the most creative and original storylines of modern cinema. Very philosophical, it will make you drop all of your ideas to the floor and rise them back up to the roof. All of this around an adorable love story that will make yourself question what love truly is. Inspires deep reflection and very mind blowing, a movie that will leave you thinking for days. Alongside with a very detailed artistic production, a story to remember. Expand
  2. 6
    I don't exactly know how to review this because I'm still thinking about the movie and what everything means! I haven't been watching as many movies as I used to but damn this has to be one of the weirdest movies of the past few years. The first half has kind of boring dialogue that sorta seem to drag one but, in my opinion, this movie makes up for it in just a 5 minute part or so. I don't want to ruin anything but the part when he actually stops time, that affected me more than anything else in this movie. Overall super strange and I'm not sure why some of the things happened in the movie but it was definitely interesting to say the least. Expand
  3. Any audience member who has seen a previous Miranda July film knows what they are in for if they go to another one. July loves silly and awkward conversations which spring out of thin air and make her characters seem quirky. If you love quirky and oddball then Miranda July is the filmmaker for you. However, July is one of those filmmakers who do not have much a gray area when it comes to reactions. Movie goers either love her or cannot stand her. Julyâ Expand
  4. I liked 'You and Me' (prior film) pretty well, the kids were likable. This film starts out great and quietly warm and quirky and then derails into a sad, sad tale of adult characters who are doing nothing much except act badly in the face of a made-up deadline. The original idea started out quite funny, how could this thing have gone so wrong and needlessly humorless? This writer has obviously found quite a sympathetic audience since the user ratings here are high for a film that mainstream viewers will almost certainly abandon before it's finished. I am usually a fan of slow, quirky, indie films, but there has to be someone in there to like! I'll give it a 3 for an original opening premise and I like the actors, but otherwise, there is no there there. Expand

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