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13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyA compelling and disturbing drama about some elemental male issues.
- 35MovielineMichelle OrangeMovielineMichelle OrangeIn another light the group's - and the film's - portentous resolution looks a lot like quitting, in true slacker style.
- 30VarietyRobert KoehlerVarietyRobert KoehlerA weekend romp for four middle-aged buddies devolves into a drug-fueled, suicidal hell in Mark Pellington's ill-conceived and executed I Melt With You, a work of extreme self-indulgence.
- 30Village VoiceVillage VoiceStylish cinematography and an awesome punk-and-new-wave soundtrack make the early, music-video-like montages of debauchery at least trashy entertainment, but the film's second half couldn't be more contemptible.
- 20Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfAn excruciatingly awkward stab at generational sympathy, I Melt with You presents a quartet of thickening college buddies gathering at a Big Sur rental house to mourn their lost ambition.
- 20New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIt almost seems unfair to mention that Carla Gugino shows up as a cop 80 minutes into these overlong proceedings; by then, viewers who walk out would never even have known that she was involved.
- 16The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayA movie about self-absorbed douchebags that wallows in their douchebaggery.
- 12Slant MagazineNick SchagerSlant MagazineNick SchagerThe only thing more narcissistically indulgent than the film's repugnant protagonists is Mark Pellington's iPod-scored, visually flashy, thoroughly hollow directorial celebration of them.
- 10The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenWhen a sheriff's deputy (Carla Gugino) visits the house, I Melt With You turns into a ludicrous, cheap horror thriller that sheds any claims to integrity. By the end, you feel nothing, not even contempt.
- 0ObserverRex ReedObserverRex ReedA disastrous catalog of flaws, all accentuated by dilated, out-of-focus cinematography. The coke-snorting, booze-guzzling and vomiting add up to nearly two hours of frustration, anesthesia and pointless, self-indulgent excess. They should have called it "I Vomit With You." There's plenty of that too.