Results 2015

Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times: Bujalski's script is smarter and much weirder (in a good way) than the standard romantic comedy. Read more

Wesley Morris, Grantland: A movie like this feels like a dream challenge for an actor. It lives and dies not sheerly by the writing and the direction of the script, but by the cast's organic adherence to both. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: Things went fairly disastrously wrong at the casting stage, and got worse from that point ... Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: A week in the outback without a cellphone would be better than Results. Read more

Scott Foundas, Variety: It gives off a warmly inviting glow. Read more

Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, AV Club: With Bujalski, this is business as usual, but by the standards of the contemporary indie rom-com, it's refreshingly unpredictable and thoughtful. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: What happens when a rigorously non-mainstream filmmaker tries to reverse-engineer a mainstream romantic comedy? The result, in all its charming perversity, is "Results." Read more

J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: Sharply funny slacker comedy. Read more

John DeFore, Hollywood Reporter: A perfectly chosen cast sells this unhurried comedy, which flows unconventionally but is still, by a long stretch, the most mainstream-friendly picture Bujalski has made. Read more

Michael Rechtshaffen, Los Angeles Times: The rom-com isn't such a lost cause, after all. It was just waiting for someone like indie filmmaker Andrew Bujalski to resuscitate it. Read more

Richard Brody, New Yorker: One of the strangest and strongest of recent romantic triangles forms in the course of this lyrical, fanatically realistic comedy, written and directed by Andrew Bujalski. Read more

Ella Taylor, NPR: You'd expect Bujalski, who made Beeswax and Computer Chess and a couple of other extreme indies, to poke fun at gym culture, the ultimate soft target. And he does, but sweetly and without disparagement ... Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Writer-director Andrew Bujalski appreciates a grimy basement as much as he does a wide-open highway, and he aims for a slice-of-life tapestry. But he should have simply let Corrigan slouch into nirvana. Read more

A.O. Scott, New York Times: Only toward the end do you realize that the characters have been arranged into a pleasing and familiar romantic-comedy triangle and that you've been watching a beautifully played game of underhand slow-pitch screwball. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Somebody needs to give Andrew Bujalski a TV series. If "Results," his unlikely but delightful new film set in and around an Austin fitness studio run by hard-bodied Guy Pearce, were a TV pilot, I would be hooked on the show already. Read more

Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader: Writer-director Andrew Bujalski has capitalized on the lo-fi triumph of oddball subculture that was Computer Chess, adding budget and stars without compromising tone or intelligence. Read more

Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: Not a whole lot happens, but you get to know an interesting trio, and leave them feeling satisfied that it was time well spent. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: There's an absurdist edge, but with nothing of the smart aleck about it. Rather than use wit as a way of bypassing thought and emotion, Bujalski's concerns are serious and his attitude toward his characters is warm without being indulgent. Read more

Minneapolis Star Tribune: Writer/director Andrew Bujalski has enough laughs and stamina in his narrative, although at times the flabby story seems to drift endlessly without much focus other than on ripped biceps and toned abs. Read more

Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Bujalski crafts a quirky romance with fitness-industry comedy Results, shaping flawed characters into people you might just admire. Read more

Inkoo Kang, TheWrap: This droll, intelligent farce is most poignant as a portrait of modern alienation that explores how money, service work and self-improvement leave individuals stranded and alone. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: Like Bujalski's early mumblecore work, this is sensitive and meandering - and just a little bit patience-testing. Read more

Abby Garnett, Village Voice: Bujalski knows how to reveal the immaturities and hangups people hide behind money, ambition, and the pursuit of a better body. Read more

Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture: Results feels so free-form, so liberated from the shackles of genre, that it becomes its own wonderfully alive and unpredictable thing. Read more

Stephanie Merry, Washington Post: "Results" is a smooth transition for Bujalski from the fringes to more commercial work. It's heartening that he didn't give up his calling-card observational humor to do it. Read more

Will Leitch, The New Republic: A completely weird, off-kilter, bizarro-land version of a romantic comedy, writer/director Andrew Bujalski finally cracks the Broadcast News code moony filmmakers have been trying to break for three decades. Read more