Bracingly original, alarming and droll, the righteously ribald Rid of Me should prove a breakthrough for helmer James Westby and his producer and leading lady, Katie O'Grady.
An ingenious black comedy written and directed by James Westby, comes at you like a horror movie before settling down into something quieter but equally skin crawling.
75
Movieline
Movieline
Rid of Me is a ragged film that doesn't always work. Beyond just the midpoint shift, it does seem frequently uneven tonally.
Neither its depiction of the world of squares nor its embrace of rule-flouting self-affirmation rings true, so the inevitable happy ending offers little joy.
30
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Village VoiceNick Pinkerton
Rid of Me is a bad movie, but at least it's a flailing, innocent badness.
12
Slant MagazineAndrew Schenker
Slant MagazineAndrew Schenker
At once hopelessly amateurish and given to desperate assertions of auterist "virtuosity."