Reach Me 2014

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: At times "Reach Me" is undeniably intriguing, mostly because it's just so weird and disconnected. Eventually, though, it just becomes tiresome. Read more

Sara Stewart, New York Post: Plays like an amateur-acting exercise in which each participant picks a name and a couple of defining props. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: In the 2014 annals of throwaway flops, save a special place for 95 wasted minutes of drivel called Reach Me. Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: A misbegotten venture that constantly ups its own ante on histrionic overacting, ludicrous plot twists and insipid empowerment mantras ... Read more

Jesse Hassenger, AV Club: The score works overtime to assert what kind of movie this is, sometimes shifting several times within a single scene. Choices include a low-rent thriller, a contemplative drama, and a slick Elmore Leonard-style crime farce. None of them stick. Read more

Tom Long, Detroit News: 'Reach Me' is the sort of movie where careers go to die. Read more

Frank Scheck, Hollywood Reporter: Nothing in the proceedings is remotely convincing, let alone entertaining. Read more

Robert Abele, Los Angeles Times: A kitchen-sink mess with no discernible narrative drive or thematic resonance beyond uninspired batches of bad behavior, gunplay, eccentricity and weak uplift. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The excessive plotlines are sloppily written and choppily edited, while the acting is almost uniformly subpar. Worse, the concept itself is bafflingly empty. Read more

Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times: Casting Sylvester Stallone as a gossip-site publisher obviously modeled on Matt Drudge is one of many counterintuitive ideas that backfire in "Reach Me." Read more

Simon Abrams, Village Voice: A tone-deaf everything-is-connected melodrama ... Read more