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32 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThis is a genuinely bizarre, startling, freewheelingly lo-fi and funny indie picture with the refreshing bad-taste impact of Todd Solondz or Robert Crumb.
- 91The A.V. ClubJordan HoffmanThe A.V. ClubJordan HoffmanThe first feature from Owen Kline, Funny Pages is not a dramatic masterpiece, but its setting, tone, look, feel, and casting would send real comic book geeks off doing cartwheels—if only we possessed the coordination. Instead, it will have to suffice to sit there, mouths open with the typical drool, thinking “I feel seen.”
- 83The Film StageLeonardo GoiThe Film StageLeonardo GoiIt’s a work as faithful to its peculiar milieu as it is universal in its themes—a coming-of-age that feels, in a wistful and cumulatively moving way, like going back in time.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerA fresh and uncompromising feature debut ... Kline has a true gift for portraiture, and it’s what makes this sad and scrappy portrait of the artist as a young cartoonist feel new and yet strangely familiar.
- 80Total FilmNeil SmithTotal FilmNeil SmithIt has an unpredictability that keeps you on your toes and a bitter pathos that gives every laugh (of which there are many) a note of tragic despair.
- 80IGNIGNFunny Pages may be the most cringeworthy movie you'll see all year — and that's a good thing.
- 70Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonThe prickly protagonists of Funny Pages would not be pleasant company in real life, but writer-director Owen Kline’s proudly dyspeptic feature debut gives his characters a scruffy integrity that makes them perversely fascinating.
- 67The PlaylistCharles BramescoThe PlaylistCharles BramescoA consistently funny yet narratively undercooked coming-of-age story.
- 63Washington PostMark JenkinsWashington PostMark JenkinsThis lack of generosity toward the supporting players is one of the movie’s major weaknesses. The other is that the episodic story leads to no significant discovery, either narrative or psychological.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanWhat is doesn’t have, oddly, is any sort of bone-deep reality factor. Almost nothing that happens in Funny Pages is particularly believable.