Ingrid Goes West: reviews

What the critics say average 7.1 from 7 outlets

• 9.0 The PlaylistGregory Ellwood 'Ingrid' will stick with you long after you leave the theater. It?s rare that a comedy makes you reconsider your own actions on social media. Read
• 8.5 The WrapSteve Pond Spicer has a deft touch with his story, and his cast marvelously fleshes out a bunch of people we care about even though, in most cases, we know we probably shouldn't. Read
• 8.0 VarietyPeter Debruge Spicer?s squirm-inducing directorial debut understands both the pleasures and frustrations of judging one?s worth via virtual connections(...). It?s the sort of timely satire that could click with younger audiences. Read
• 8.0 The GuardianBenjamin Lee ['Ingrid Goes West'] isn?t a simple takedown of social media-obsessed Californians ? that would be too easy. Instead, Spicer looks past the emojis and pulls out the depression, inauthenticity and loneliness that?s behind the need for constant online affirmation. Read
• 6.0 The Hollywood ReporterLeslie Felperin [The] script adeptly sets the scene for some classic comedy of embarrassment and then sets things in motion smoothly, but as whirlwinds are reaped and revelations tumble out, a not-in-a-good-way sourness emerges that makes the last act more unpleasant than perhaps the filmmakers intended. Read
• 5.5 IndiewireDavid Ehrlich It?s shaky territory when you start conflating the effects of social media with genuine mental illness(...). 'Ingrid Goes West' is colorful and flippant enough that it can survive a lot of its more senseless developments, but the movie never digs beneath the most obvious layers of its L.A. stereotypes. Read
• 4.8 Screen DailyDavid D'Arcy Just as the writers can?t get beyond the atmosphere and the mostly retread gags of a boilerplate Los Angeles, they can?t get their characters past the point of an Instagram hangover that follows flashes of internet celebrity, and is sometimes the same thing. Read