83
Metascore
30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100The PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinThe PlaylistCharlie SchmidlinAn honest and sharply drawn account of the eternal questions of ego, friendship, and sacrifice in the comedy world.
- 100New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinNew York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinIt’s funny and inspiring and harsh and depressing. It’s steeped in existential dread. I don’t know how Birbiglia pulled it off, but he gets the minutiae of an improv-comedy show thrillingly right while using the form to build a kind of allegory of the corrosive effects of capitalism.
- 90The New YorkerRichard BrodyThe New YorkerRichard BrodyBirbiglia films what he knows, offering ample and intricate scenes of improvisations performed onstage, along with an insider’s view of the industry.
- 80VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyPortraying a cutthroat business in which little is “fair,” Don’t Think Twice acknowledges the bloodshed, but applies the razor with enough empathetic delicacy to earn its cautiously upbeat fade.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeAs much as Don't Think Twice focuses on professional envy, though, it remains a love letter to this weirdo art form called improv.
- 75The Film StageJordan RaupThe Film StageJordan RaupWhile Don’t Think Twice depicts a certain world with incisive specificity, its themes of what success truly means are universal to anyone involved in the arts.
- 75Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenIt displays an intimate chemical understanding of the exhausting and unrelentingly impotent agony of failure.
- 70New York Daily NewsJoe DziemianowiczNew York Daily NewsJoe DziemianowiczJack and Sam share a wonderful scene when performance and real life blur, which is the whole point of the movie.
- 67ConsequenceRandall ColburnConsequenceRandall ColburnDon’t Think Twice is a brisk, engaging watch. It’s sweet, it’s melancholy, and, perhaps most importantly, it’s hilarious. And despite the film’s soft teeth, it’s still the most honest and unfiltered exploration of improv comedy you’re likely to find out of Hollywood.