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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghMcKenzie's mercurial performance is the centerpiece of this sad, surprisingly absorbing story.
- 50Village VoiceLaura SinagraVillage VoiceLaura SinagraKuryla has her prole banter down, and moments like McKenzie's desperate dance on her jalopy hood when Turturro locks her out move beyond literary sting into kinetic and sympathetic gutter picaresque.
- 50The A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThe A.V. ClubNoel MurrayThough the whole of Freak Weather is too forced and fitful, significant stretches of the movie hold together. McKenzie gives a magnetic performance.
- Like its heroine, Freak Weather is courageous but disorganized; its loopy, screwball tone feels at odds with the gravity of the scenes of chaos and violence it depicts.
- 50Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittA promising feature-film debut.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckDirector-screenwriter Kuryla displays some talent and an audaciously daring sensibility but ultimately fails to display the assured cinematic style that would make the unsavory proceedings more palatable.
- 40VarietyEddie CockrellVarietyEddie CockrellFiction writer and debuting helmer Mary Kuryla is clearly after a Big Statement on abuse and strength of character, but falls short by creating a self-destructive monster in lieu of a sympathetic protagonist.
- 38New York PostNew York PostMostly, Freak Weather is just pathetic.