Review of My Salinger Year (2020) by Cinemacriterion — 05 Mar 2021

Wonderful film! Great performances by Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver.

This review of My Salinger Year (2020) was written by Cinemacriterion on 05 Mar 2021.

My Salinger Year has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Tara Brady (805) for The Irish Times (483) on 25 May 2021

Watchable, if a bit lopsided, it’s far from the catastrophe that some of the more unkind reviews have suggested…

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By Tomris Laffly (460) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 05 Mar 2021

My Salinger Year sometimes drags and falters with questionable tonal shifts…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 11 Mar 2021

This cast and this world make for a grand escape from the mundane necessities of life as we’re immersed in a coming-of-age tale like few…

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By Jack King (15) for The Playlist (3,871) on 26 Feb 2020

While My Salinger Year is not always successful in the larger debate it tries to have around how we can define authorship, and how the commercialization…

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By Bertobellamy (400) on 05 Jun 2021

This film isn't awful, but there's little in it that makes it interesting…

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By David Lewis (299) for San Francisco Chronicle (7,630) on 03 Mar 2021

My Salinger Year, which is basically The Devil Wears Prada set in the literary world, is a film that feels like it’s ready to take off at…

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By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 28 Feb 2021

The film fails to effectively seize on how its main character’s life and work experiences have affected her as a person and artist…

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By Boyd Van Hoeij (303) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 26 Feb 2020

The main issue with the film's screenplay, written by the director, is that it is trying to cover too much ground and yet be tonally light…

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By Roberthoward (54) on 16 May 2022

Especially thanks to two very good performance by Qualley and Weaver, My Salinger Year remains an intriguing character study, yet some plot…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Variety (12,700) on 26 Feb 2020

The movie doesn’t show a complex enough representation of either adult life or the New York literary world to offer much depth to grownups…

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