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The Girl from Monday
  • Studio: NetFlix
  • Release Date: Apr 15, 2005
Metascore
45 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 13
  3. Negative: 4 out of 13
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  1. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    There's heavy influence from the "Brave New World" brand of dystopian fantasy, but engaging performances and a stylized visual approach lend it originality.
  2. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    75
    Hartley's soft spot for offbeat romances is trumped by irony and sloganeering dialogue.
  3. Chicago Reader
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Rosenbaum
    70
    Flaky, funny, and sexy.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    63
    Not one of Hartley's most successful efforts, but it's witty, daring, different and a welcome alternative to Hollywood pap.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Scott Tobias
    60
    There's ample opportunity here for a sharp consumerist satire, like a dryer cousin to the candy-colored pop-culture send-up "Josie And The Pussycats," but Hartley misses his own joke.
  6. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    Numbing story.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    50
    Hartley's score is lovely and he makes excellent use of digital video, but the film's paucity of provocative ideas is its undoing.
  8. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: M. E. Russell
    50
    As satire, it doesn't add up -- but it's an admirable, if dull, experiment.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Robert Koehler
    50
    Unconvincingly attempts to update the futurist dystopian traditions of Orwell, Huxley and William Gibson.
  10. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Hartley's satire of consumer-driven sexuality is undermined by the straight-faced decision to cast affectless model Tatiana Abracos as the heroine.
  11. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    Evokes a mood of tenderness. Beyond that, it is a weightless, sentimental and intellectually lazy effort from an independent filmmaker whose movies seem increasingly insubstantial.
  12. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Peter Hanson
    20
    A profoundly unnecessary movie, The Girl From Monday is an embarrassment.
  13. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Ed Halter
    20
    A monotonous, unenlightening experience.
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