Ingrid Goes West's reviews
Media reviews
The Playlist
'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.
The Wrap
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.
Variety
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.
The Guardian
['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.
The Hollywood Reporter
[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.
Indiewire
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.
Screen Daily
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.