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34 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91The PlaylistRodrigo PerezThe PlaylistRodrigo PerezTrenchantly reflecting on the mishandling of success, blind ambition, idolatry, hero worship and the complex and competitive nature of artists in romantic relationships, Listen Up Philip is brilliantly chock-a-block with resonant observations.
- 90VarietyScott FoundasVarietyScott FoundasIt’s a familiar tale, but one told by Perry with immense filmmaking verve and novelistic flourish, and acted by an exceptional ensemble cast.
- 90The DissolveScott TobiasThe DissolveScott TobiasListen Up Philip doesn’t care to be liked. And in that, it deserves to be loved.
- 89Film.comJordan HoffmanFilm.comJordan HoffmanListen Up Philip is big, sprawling and tortured, if a little lacking in focus – while funny in parts, it isn’t really a comedy.
- 80Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfIt’s a movie that loves boldly “important” ’70s-style dust jackets, loves its own lecturing voice (courtesy of neurotic narrator Eric Bogosian) and somehow makes that mélange strangely appealing.
- 75Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneBy putting so much weight on his characters' speech, Alex Ross Perry's is an approach with honestly few contemporaries in American independent film.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyTechnically and in his work with actors, Philip represents a great leap forward for Perry; a subsequent jump might involve presenting a central character with whom viewers could legitimately engage.
- 60New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanSchwartzman and Pryce are compelling in their self-regard. But it’s no coincidence that the lovely, empathetic Moss is who we root for.
- 25ObserverRex ReedObserverRex ReedA pointless, pathetic and profoundly boring send-up of universally acknowledged anti-social author Philip Roth, Listen Up Philip is a juvenile experiment in pretentious idiosyncrasy by amateurish writer-director Alex Ross Perry. He calls his miserable protagonist Philip Friedman, but who’s kidding who?