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17 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91ColliderRoss BonaimeColliderRoss BonaimeMeet Me in the Bathroom is a tremendous document of one of the most integral musical periods of our time, when the kids asked "is this it?" and responded by changing the world.
- 90Film ThreatJosiah TealFilm ThreatJosiah TealMeet Me in the Bathroom is a moving memory of each band and their legacy in a larger musical landscape. It captures the ethos of each artist and is an excellent visual companion to Lizzy Goodman’s oral history.
- 70VarietyAndrew BarkerVarietyAndrew BarkerIf it’s sometimes a little rough around the edges and not always structurally coherent, well, the same was true of these bands.
- 70The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyThere are revealing glimpses into the early work of artists who would morph into entities that were slicker and ostensibly cooler.
- 68Paste MagazineNatalia KeoganPaste MagazineNatalia KeoganWhat’s most compelling about the documentary is the archival footage (some previously unseen) of the bands during their first fledgling efforts, though the presence of the tangible music that shot these musicians to stardom remains elusive.
- 67ConsequenceClint WorthingtonConsequenceClint WorthingtonVibes can only take you so far, and Southern and Lovelace’s dreamlike approach keeps us from having a firm grip on the chronology of the times. It also feels like an incomplete chronicling of its subject, given its narrow focus on a few bands and the lack of participation of key figures.
- 67The Film StageDavid KatzThe Film StageDavid KatzMeet Me in the Bathroom’s depth is so cursory it can’t quite re-convince us how significant this all seemed at the time.
- 58IndieWireRyan LattanzioIndieWireRyan LattanzioSouthern and Lovelace’s documentary appears to be held together by the same proverbial glue and paper clips that cohered the early sonic boom of this particular indie subset. And that’s largely part of its charm. But the results are often navel-gazey.
- 50The PlaylistAndrew BundyThe PlaylistAndrew BundyMeet Me in the Bathroom feels like a surface-level music documentary with little mindfulness for creative expression or the shades of reality outside the fame of its subjects.
- 38RogerEbert.comSimon AbramsRogerEbert.comSimon AbramsMeet Me in the Bathroom is an impressionistic blur, more about what it felt like to be at the head of a scene than the actual scene’s character or identity.