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- 2023
- R
- Rialto Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- R
- Rialto Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Summary College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the movie theater where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
Directed By: Susanna Fogel
Written By: Michelle Ashford, Kristen Roupenian
- 2023
- R
- Rialto Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
- 2023
- R
- Rialto Pictures
- 1 h 58 m
Cat Person
48
5.5
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Summary College student Margot meets 33-year-old Robert at the movie theater where she works. After a casual flirtation at the concession stand, they carry on conversations through texts. As their perceptions of each other collide, events spiral out of control. Based on The New Yorker short story by Kristen Roupenian.
Directed By: Susanna Fogel
Written By: Michelle Ashford, Kristen Roupenian
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
48
30% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
57% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
13% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
48
30% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
57% Mixed
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
13% Negative
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
Powerful, provocative, and libel to promote debate - 'Cat Person' is a film with plenty to say. Directed by Susanna Fogel and adapted from the short story by Kristen Roupenian, this features Emilia Jones and Nicholas Braun in a hard hitting tale.
It works, at least for a while — until the real short story stops and it’s time to get rid of the ambiguity.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 User Ratings
5.5
38% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
31% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
31% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 13 User Ratings
5.5
38% Positive
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
31% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
31% Negative
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
Surprisingly charming and funny film given its source material. The two leads are well cast and have great chemistry together. Emilia Jones is a standout and I look forward to seeing her in more films. Yes, the end does jump the shark - but not enough to ruin all the prior great work. I dunno, this film and its performances really clicked with me - 10 stars
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Didn’t really know what to expect as all I knew was what I had seen in a brief trailer some weeks ago. I even had to check the description this morning to find out if it was going to be a drama. Whilst it did have humour, it was quite serious in many areas, raising questions on both sides of the gender divide. A very good film which I suspect will be missed by many until it hits a streaming platform. Whenever you do see it, I’m sure you will enjoy it.
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By swerving into territory already better owned by outrageous indies like Promising Young Woman — and to a lesser degree, last year's Sundance breakout Fresh — Cat forfeits its own underlying message, without finding anything else new or even particularly coherent to say.
Every so often the semblance of a promising adaptation peeks beyond the surface, but ultimately it all gets swallowed in a reductive muck of misguided choices that over-explains what the short story left up for discussion.
Had Roupenian stretched out Margot’s ordeal into the turgid novella it hereby becomes, we’d never have heard of Cat Person in the first place.
When it comes to dating, there’s no doubt we live in confusing times. But no one needs a confused movie about dating confusion, and Cat Person’s ideas are so blurry it’s impossible to know what its goals are.
By the end, Cat Person has killed any hope of a real conversation about modern love.
This movie tries to be a two-way discussion, but ends up becoming the very thing it criticizes.
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After seeing the movie I still don't know why it was made and what lesson we should learn here. Its based on a short story, that makes sence, but it should have stayed short. I don't like milked out ideas, and this confirms it by feelings of awkwardness, disbelief, cringe, and revolt, and that extended to a two hour movie. A girl who goes on a date fearing the worst and seeing serial killers in every shadow might be better off seeking professional help instead of putting average innocent males at risk. There is to much anti masculine vibes here, unrealisticaly so. Woke and hostile me to vibes? Yes its true that there are (too) many men who kill their partner, but that's in standing relationships. Its also true men might have 'learned' from pornographic sources, but that might be the case for women also. But instead of showing a doubleganger commenting that the sex is not up to the lady's expectations, then show those male spectators what they should do instead. And if you are the girl thinking such things, just speak up if it goes to fast, and say what you would prefer. The language put into the mouth of the man at that point seems very unlikely, and the rest of the first night also. Its all a parody of a date. You don't learn to write by practicing only the a; give it some time! The producer takes a lot of pleasure from showing far fetched evil alternatives at different points in the dating. And makes an issue of the age difference, what is uncalled for, since in the storyline she starts flirting with him, not the other way around. All in all the film doesn't give good advice, its more like, those awful men are better avoided? Very unfair to all those normal, nice and well meaning boys, and girls. Stress and guild, and a lesbian with persecutory delusions, a load of prejudices and insane suspicions as her best friend. We are turning the clock back a hundred years or more here! An unpleasant experience, albeit quite well acted. I stayed untill the end, reluctantly, but her next movie won't be for me...
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