Somebody Up There Likes Me 2013

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Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: It's all kind of cute. Maybe a little too cute, but it does have a nice circle-of-life ending. Read more

Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: A film distinguished entirely by its stubborn refusal to engage viewers in any way whatsoever. Read more

Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader: Bob Byington's imaginative indie comedy recalls some of Richard Lester's 60s films in its freewheeling narrative structure and cartoonish sight gags, though the humor is more often peculiar than laugh-out-loud funny. Read more

Stephen Dalton, Hollywood Reporter: Highly original and delightfully unorthodox. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: Words such as offbeat, charming or, Lord help us, quirky are wildly overused and yet this is exactly the kind of film to which they best apply. Read more

Ted Scheinman, L.A. Weekly: The film itself is so charming that you almost forget to ask whether these people truly deserve our empathy. Read more

David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: American cinema has been churning out slacker movies for what seems like eons, so it's refreshing to report that Somebody Up There Likes Me enlivens the genre with a welcome breath of imagination, wit and charm. Read more

Michael Atkinson, Time Out: The time-killing universe Byington has created makes sure we never forget how absurd he thinks the whole movie is. Fun for him, perhaps. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: If nonchalance were an Olympic sport, Max would be a gold medalist, and watching Somebody Up There Likes Me is about as much fun as being a spectator at that event might sound. Read more

Ted Scheinman, Village Voice: The film itself is so charming that you almost forget to ask whether these people truly deserve our empathy. Read more