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8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakHoneyglue has a very good movie inside it, but decisions brought on by inexperience prevent it from sprouting its wings.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisSan Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisJessica Tuck gives an emotionally raw performance as Morgan’s mother, and Amanda Plummer’s turn as a trailer park resident sheds more light on Jordan than all the other scenes combined.
- 50Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshLos Angeles TimesKatie WalshWriter-director James Bird took inspiration from real-life experiences, and the story is obviously heartfelt. But despite a stylized, edgy surface, Honeyglue doesn’t stray from the well-worn weepy narrative.
- 38The Seattle TimesSoren AndersenThe Seattle TimesSoren AndersenIt’s Honeyglue, a romantic drama, which fittingly, given that title, is sticky with sentimentality.
- 30The Hollywood ReporterHarry WindsorThe Hollywood ReporterHarry WindsorWriter-director James Bird’s second feature tells an entirely familiar story with a dash of transvestism thrown in, but doesn’t do anything interesting with that twist – and the lumpen screenplay is drag enough.
- 12Slant MagazineDiego SemereneSlant MagazineDiego SemereneIt's more interested in borrowing terminal cancer as a narrative shorthand for intensity than investigating it as a lived experience.
- 10Village VoiceKenji FujishimaVillage VoiceKenji Fujishima[An] unintentionally hilarious tragic romance.
- 10VarietyNick SchagerVarietyNick SchagerThroughout, Bird’s visuals are consistently flat, and his habit of cinematographically spinning around his characters (at a dinner table, on a dance floor, in a field) is dizzying in an unpleasant, nausea-inducing way — thus creating a fitting marriage of form and content.