Cat Person

"The cat is out of the bag but maybe it should have stayed there."

"A curious (and new) third act dilutes its power."

"Good fiction has been turned into a bad movie."

"Ashford has done an admirable job of expanding the short story."

"Bound to fire up the discourse."

"A darkly funny story about sexual politics…until its climactic wrong turn."

"Two-thirds a solid film, and one-third an absurd blunder."

"A disjointed, bizarre, and often cringe-inducing exploration of the modern dating world."

"A major letdown."

"Seems to miss the entire point of its source material."

"A cinematic litter box."

"Cat Person ruins a viral sensation."

"Tacky."

"A scrambled, overloaded mess."

"A mash-up of a rom-com and a horror movie, with mixed results."

"Powerful, provocative."

"Trades the insidious discomfort of Kristen Roupenian’s story for heavy-handed metaphors and on-the-nose thrills."

"The film swerves into the totally unbelievable."

"Has a tendency to overexplain and flagrantly telegraph its ideas."