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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Slant MagazineNick PriggeSlant MagazineNick PriggeIt subtly counteracts the cliché that creative expression can save your life by making its protagonist a hipster Peter Pan whose creative expression is an excuse not to grow up.
- 70The DissolveThe DissolveThere are small moments that shiver with chaos and uncontrollable emotion in Swim Little Fish Swim.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThis low-key indie drama has enough well observed, insightful moments to compensate for its occasional lapses into forced quirkiness.
- 68Film.comCalum MarshFilm.comCalum MarshWhat ultimately holds the film back, I believe, is its tendency to err too far on the side of that sweetness — it indulges too often in the hallmarks of the mediocre indie, the stuff a press release might call quirk, to level its more substantial points with real seriousness.
- 50VarietyJay WeissbergVarietyJay Weissberg[A] slight, predictable debut.
- 40Village VoiceSam WeisbergVillage VoiceSam WeisbergThe performances often enliven the stale material... But the script's naïveté is galling.
- 40Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenAn art-versus-commerce drama that consists of one beautifully aching performance surrounded by a whole lotta twee.
- 30The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerThe New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMumbly dialogue, relentlessly jittery camerawork, a star who is also co-director and co-writer: Yes, it’s time for another movie that mistakes the claustrophobic world of young New York artsy types for something interesting.