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Metascore
8 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80Village VoiceSherilyn ConnellyVillage VoiceSherilyn ConnellyI Am I is a remarkably assured debut for director Towne, especially since she's onscreen the majority of the time, and her script eschews the rules of the standard Hollywood amnesia plot, instead following its own internal logic while not shying away from the darker implications of its premise.
- 60The DissolveChris KlimekThe DissolveChris KlimekThe performances, particularly from Towne and Tighe, go a long way toward making the story’s improbabilities seem trivial.
- 50RogerEbert.comRogerEbert.comThe fault is in Towne’s direction. People sometimes complain that flashy, ostentatious visual stylization takes them out of the movie; what took me out of this movie was its flat, lifeless, unimaginative and conventional visual style.
- 40Los Angeles TimesInkoo KangLos Angeles TimesInkoo KangFirst-time writer-director Jocelyn Towne takes an admirably novel stab at familial dysfunction in her father-daughter drama I Am I, but she proves unable to keep the film's originality from rapidly curdling into preposterousness.
- 40VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyThis potentially intriguing concept is given disappointingly bland, flat treatment in the Kickstarter-funded project, in which Towne brings professionalism but little personality to both her on- and offcamera roles.
- 33The PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe PlaylistNikola GrozdanovicThe decisions made by the characters of I Am I feel so rushed that everyone’s emotional compass is either utterly broken, ignored, useless, or frustratingly disorienting.
- 30The New York TimesAndy WebsterThe New York TimesAndy WebsterThe film, financed by a Kickstarter campaign, looks polished enough. But its investors’ money might have been better spent elsewhere.