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By Alonso Duralde (1,351) for TheWrap (3,203) on 15 Oct 2014

Those willing to commit to a fascinating story about talented and intelligent people who can also be selfish, vulnerable, strong-headed, short-sighted,…

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By Andrew O'hehir (1,324) for Salon.com (2,725) on 15 Oct 2014

Once you adjust to Listen Up Philip, it’s also invigorating, disturbing and frequently hilarious, but that adjustment’s not entirely painless…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 15 Oct 2014

In his third feature, following 2009's Impolex and 2011's The Color Wheel, Perry, 30, offers a stinging portrait of writing as one of the bleeding…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Village Voice (8,525) on 15 Oct 2014

The vainglorious pas de deux between Philip and Zimmerman is entertaining for a while, though the novelty gradually wears off…

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By Simi Horwitz (83) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 15 Oct 2014

In the end, Listen Up Philip is an idiosyncratic comedy-drama that is inexplicably seductive, despite its off-putting elements…

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By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 14 Oct 2014

Listen Up Philip doesn’t care to be liked. And in that, it deserves to be loved…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 14 Oct 2014

I can't think of anyone under 40 who plays arrogant, self-absorbed jerks more convincingly than Jason Schwartzman…

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By Kyle Smith (1,916) for New York Post (6,650) on 14 Oct 2014

In Listen Up Philip, the tiny fury of Jason Schwartzman suggests his “Rushmore” character is now 15 years older and a middling Brooklyn…

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By Elizabeth Weitzman (1,905) for New York Daily News (5,623) on 14 Oct 2014

Schwartzman and Pryce are compelling in their self-regard. But it’s no coincidence that the lovely, empathetic Moss is who we root for…

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By Rex Reed (1,506) for New York Observer (1,400) on 14 Oct 2014

A pointless, pathetic and profoundly boring send-up of universally acknowledged anti-social author Philip Roth, Listen Up Philip is a juvenile…

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By Frederic And Mary Ann Brussat (3,072) for Spirituality and Practice (3,072) on 14 Oct 2014

A dreadfully depressing screen portrait of a thoroughly obnoxious fiction writer…

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By Josh Larsen (2,042) for LarsenOnFilm (1,412) on 14 Oct 2014

Perry ... draws out one of Schwartzman's most human performances…

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By Joshua Rothkopf (1,058) for Time Out (7,510) on 13 Oct 2014

It’s a movie that loves boldly “important” ’70s-style dust jackets, loves its own lecturing voice (courtesy of neurotic narrator Eric…

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By Austin Trunick (219) for Under the Radar (636) on 13 Oct 2014

Listen Up Philip feeds off the same fidgety, anxiety-driven humor that drove so many of Woody Allen's classics in the 1970s…

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By Jon Lyus (167) for HeyUGuys (1,461) on 09 Oct 2014

The film feels very intimate, something largely helped by the hand-held, often shaky, camerawork and 16mm print and everything works to add…

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By Steve Macfarlane (121) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 08 Oct 2014

By putting so much weight on his characters' speech, Alex Ross Perry's is an approach with honestly few contemporaries in American independent film…

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By Zachary Shevich (27) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 08 Oct 2014

Though far from perfect, Alex Ross Perry's new comedy, Listen Up Philip, has a distinct visual style and a biting commentary on the narcissistic…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 28 Sep 2014

Technically and in his work with actors, Philip represents a great leap forward for Perry; a subsequent jump might involve presenting a central…

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By Edward Douglas (1,395) for ComingSoon.net (2,031) on 25 Sep 2014

What may be one of Jason Schwartzman's funniest roles to date…

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By Max Nelson (20) for Film Comment Magazine (842) on 14 Sep 2014

The film feeds off Philip's tart anti-energy; it helps that Schwartzman, in what might be the performance of his career, gives an exhilarating…

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