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My Salinger Year

2020

Philippe Falardeau

Sigourney Weaver, Margaret Qualley, Douglas Booth, Colm Feore ...

5.6

1,146

Drama In the small NYC literary world of the 1990s, aspiring poet Joanna (Margaret Qualley) works as an assistant to literary agent Margaret (Sigourney Weaver). Joanna’s job is to answer the fan mail of cult author J.D. Salinger, the pride of the agency.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Insipid, zestless, derivative film (...) A simperingly coy knock-off of The Devil Wears Prada without the sexiness and fun (...) Rating: ★ (out of 5)"	NEG
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"Falardeau tackles the material with more enthusiasm than efficiency (...) Often more jocular than insightful or touching, the film has an emotional temperature that doesn’t begin to rise until very late into the proceedings"	NEU
United States	Tomris Laffly rogerebert.com	"An air of possibility permeates 'My Salinger Year' (...) The wide-eyed pull of this sensation is so powerful (...) that you can’t help but ease into the story’s allure at once (…) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Debruge Variety	"The movie doesn’t show a complex enough representation of either adult life or the New York literary world (...) the film never convinces"	NEG
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Falardeau's film adds a curious chapter to Salinger's mythology (...) But “My Salinger Year” often trips on the self-serious nature of its premise, and struggles with an antiquated quality out of sync with its timeline"	NEG
United States	Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Qualley has the opportunity to carry the story, and she delivers an effortlessly endearing performance (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Muted almost to the point of effacement, this limp adaptation (...) only affirms that what might work on the page doesn’t always pop on the screen."	NEG
United Kingdom	Wendy Ide Screendaily	"The popularity of Rakoff’s book will likely be a selling point for a film which is rather too politely mild-mannered to draw in audiences on its own merits alone"	NEU
United States	Gary Goldstein Los Angeles Times	"A lovely, captivating film (...) Joanna’s journey of creative and emotional enlightenment (...) is managed with grace, tenderness and touching credibility by a wonderfully winning Qualley"	POS
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"If you’re an aspiring literary type, this is the film for you: a sweet —if slight— entry in the coming-of-age canon, buoyed by strong turns from Qualley and Weaver (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
	Kaleem Aftab Cineuropa	"Disappointing (...) The movie celebrates white privilege while trying to disguise itself as a progressive, feminist tale."	NEG

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