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9 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisAn ingenious black comedy written and directed by James Westby, comes at you like a horror movie before settling down into something quieter but equally skin crawling.
- 75MovielineMovielineRid of Me is a ragged film that doesn't always work. Beyond just the midpoint shift, it does seem frequently uneven tonally.
- 50New York PostLou LumenickNew York PostLou LumenickO'Grady is very good, but she can't make the hard-to-watch Rid of Me dramatically credible.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierWestby's nervy story is like "Desperately Seeking Susan" played straight. Let's hope O'Grady's next film meets this one's potential.
- Neither its depiction of the world of squares nor its embrace of rule-flouting self-affirmation rings true, so the inevitable happy ending offers little joy.
- 30Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonRid of Me is a bad movie, but at least it's a flailing, innocent badness.
- 12Slant MagazineAndrew SchenkerSlant MagazineAndrew SchenkerAt once hopelessly amateurish and given to desperate assertions of auterist "virtuosity."