"With Anthony left out of the picture, Byrne's Julie fleshes out significantly in the wake of such a pricey education, Byrne, in her first major starring role, palpably shapes up Julie's gradual and inchoate induction into adulthood with an unforced naturalism and distanced courtesy. In the end of the day, Julie cuts her teeth in the sphere with stunning panache, and her maturity is well-earned. With regard to the supporting players, Swinton dutifully plays Julie's gray-haired mother Rosalind with much affection and consideration to spare. A triad of up-and-coming male actors, Heaton, Dickinson and Alwyn, pops up in Part II to expand Julie's horizon about the opposite sex, but it is Ayoade's vainglorious Patrick, a fellow filmmaker who labors to make a British musical that stands out from the crowd, peacocking about in his rather scanty screen time, Patrick is simultaneously a megalomaniac and a hoot, one cannot help but reckon he would be an apter candidate, by whom Julie could be taken."
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