X
- 2017
- Not Rated
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2017
- Not Rated
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 35 m
Summary The rivalry between two former college friends comes to an extreme fracas when they both attend the same glamorous event.
Directed By: Onur Tukel
Written By: Onur Tukel
- 2017
- Not Rated
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 35 m
- 2017
- Not Rated
- Dark Sky Films
- 1 h 35 m
Catfight
66
6.0
Where to Watch
Summary The rivalry between two former college friends comes to an extreme fracas when they both attend the same glamorous event.
Directed By: Onur Tukel
Written By: Onur Tukel
Where to Watch
Top Cast
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
66
59% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
41% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 17 Critic Reviews
66
59% Positive
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
41% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Heche and Oh are both outright brilliant.
Tukel takes that tired cliché and blows it to smithereens. Let's hear it for unvarnished hatred expressed with no holds barred.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 User Ratings
6.0
59% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
27% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
14% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 User Ratings
6.0
59% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
27% Mixed
6 Ratings
6 Ratings
14% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
The movie is a success in that it definitely achieves what it sets out to. It's engaging, sometimes funny, sometimes shocking. Both actress' performances are convincing enough that you find yourself drawn into their characters' worlds and can't help but root for both of them despite their obvious flaws and stubborn animosity towards one another. But the real kick comes at the end when you step back and it sinks in that the whole time, the feelings you experienced weren't solely representative of an attachment to these characters but to the people and parties that they so clearly personify. It then makes sense why the entire film feels somewhat familiar and intimate. It's the mark of successful allegory that you already somehow know how this story goes.
Report
Sandra Oh is from Toronto like me so I gotta give her kudos for THAT! Wuuuhahahahaa! Anne Heche of course, is the ultimate scary lesbian, so kudos to her too. It was entertaining enough and mildly funny.
Report
Catfight is the type of blackly comic film that works to alienate some viewers with its over-the-top approach and its unlikable characters. But those who enjoy its dark humor will cackle with mean-spirited delight.
No matter its flaws, Tukel’s witty inversion of the buddy movie formula — set in an embellished world riddled by wartime dysfunction — has some legitimate ideas about the way feuds can last so long that neither side remembers what they’re fighting over.
Sheer novelty powers this confrontational curio, up to a point. But the nastiness cuts both ways.
This odd, nasty yet rather funny little film tears apart ideas of sisterhood and female friendship and replaces them with burning hate and gratuitous violence.
Onur Tukel attempts to connect Ashley and Veronica’s barbarity to the broader callousness of American life, but the satire is too blunt to really stick.
While it sometimes borders on the ridiculous, the intensity and dedication that Oh and Heche bring to their roles makes this an entertaining satire on Western culture and an interesting look at how we treat one another.
Report
The narrative resource used by this plot is tragicomic in the first part, when Sandra Oh's character suffers her total collapse, you are involved as a viewer, but when that storyline stops walking and we reach the point where the same thing happens to Anne Heche's character, the movie was already running basically on life support, proof of that is the stupidity of its ending. Both actresses deserved much better.
Report
