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Metascore
11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The New York TimesNicolas RapoldThe New York TimesNicolas RapoldMr. Nance turns his thought into a performance of vulnerability that’s all too relatable in its indulgences. It has heart without becoming cloying.
- 90Village VoiceErnest HardyVillage VoiceErnest HardyWhat saves the film—and grandly—is Nance’s wildly ambitious visual imagination. Teetering somewhere between film school precocity and impressively assured audaciousness...It’s almost hypnotic in its style and genre promiscuity.
- 88Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianSlant MagazineElise NakhnikianA playfully self-reflective rumination on what writer-director Terence Nance has described as "self-awareness through experience with love."
- 83The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayTerence Nance’s playfully experimental feature An Oversimplification Of Her Beauty is both stunning and stymieing — a film so effusive that it’s hard to separate its signal from its noise.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeWhat might have been annoyingly solipsistic proves mostly charming and poignant instead, largely thanks to Nance's cinematic ingenuity, but also because of his ability to both probe his feelings and hold them at a distance.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeAs the work of one young man bursting with inspiration, the film is a giddy thing to absorb, allowing complete strangers to witness someone performing open-heart surgery on himself.
- The film is complex and bold, sometimes even exhilarating. It can also be frustratingly esoteric.
- 60Time OutDavid FearTime OutDavid FearOverambitiousness can turn a valentine into hot air and white noise, but it can also serve as a calling card for an artist finding his pitch—and Nance is indeed an artist, pure and simple.
- 60New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAs a wry, knowing narrator guides us in and out of their symphonic affair, there’s no doubt the trip is worth it.
- 40EmpirePatrick PetersEmpirePatrick PetersA frustratingly ungraspable movie collage compiled with real visual flair.