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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttIt’s a film that doesn’t always work but when it does you almost hear an audible click. Violet & Daisy has its share of these ah-ha moments.
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineA twisted, spirited exercise in stark juxtaposition, a grindhouse fairy tale of sorts that pairs the sugary sweet with the nastily violent.
- 60Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlVillage VoiceAlan ScherstuhlThe key relationships are well drawn, if not especially revealing of anything human, and director Fletcher sometimes dares some welcome absurdity. But if you've seen movies built from the same parts as this one, you'll likely find this too familiar—but energetic, well-acted, and distinguished by artfully artless chatter.
- 50VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeViolet & Daisy feels radically disconnected from recognizable human behavior.
- 50McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreFletcher and his players never quite hit on a tone that works. Fantastical dream sequences and side trips to the store to get “more bullets” never quite rise to the level of wry commentary. This just isn’t as cute and funny as Fletcher seems to think it is.
- 42The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyThe A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyGeoffrey Fletcher’s directorial debut, Violet & Daisy, has a lot of arch dialogue and very little depth. Talky and artificial, it moves like a sort of lobotomized Hal Hartley movie; it has plenty of Hartley-esque rhetorical devices — theatrical speech patterns, naïve characters, jokey plotting — but lacks Hartley’s sense of curiosity or engagement with the real world.
- 40Time OutTime OutDeserves some kind of Bizarro World Robert Altman Independent Spirit Award for the Best Ensemble in the Least Interesting Movie.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierGandolfini scoops up another chance to show off the gentleness he left at home during six seasons of “The Sopranos.”
- 40Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyLos Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyViolet & Daisy comes out of the gate guns blazing. Too bad it ends as a misfire.