65
Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternA treat that becomes a chilling enthrallment, one of those closely observed dramas you love — for its intimacy, calm authority and mystery — even before you begin to get what it’s really about.
- 80Los Angeles TimesJustin ChangLos Angeles TimesJustin ChangThere’s a special thrill in seeing an actor known for her own eerie perfectionism playing a woman who can’t abide imperfection in herself or others.
- Nina Hoss is appropriately volatile in the role, her eyes working double-time as Anna’s sudden desires and decisions become more and more unhinged.
- 75Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownWith great clarity, the film conveys how discipline can be directed both inward and outward.
- 70Screen DailyLee MarshallScreen DailyLee MarshallWeisse puts her own, distinctive spin on this film, keeping the audience guessing about whose story this really is, feeling its way slowly towards a bracing, risky dramatic conclusion that suddenly reshuffles the cards we’ve been dealt.
- 60The New York TimesGlenn KennyThe New York TimesGlenn KennyHoss’s work is impeccable and illuminating, and the movie’s foursquare, frank, brisk approach is salutary. But its final scenes lean into triteness and frustrating evasiveness, which makes the picture a less than entirely satisfying experience.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerAnna, who’s caught in a midlife crisis that deepens throughout the movie, clearly doesn’t know what she wants. But the problem is that Weisse, the director, doesn’t always seem to know what she wants either in this prickly, wavering character study that both confounds and compels, and that doesn’t manage to land its ending.
- 50RogerEbert.comMonica CastilloRogerEbert.comMonica CastilloThere’s a quiet intensity that runs throughout The Audition. Although most of it feels like a subtle family and teacher drama, sharp anxious pangs occasionally disrupt the film’s otherwise gentle pace. Eventually, these feelings spin the film’s main character out-of-control into a truly baffling conclusion that feels neither right nor earned. It’s almost as if it were the ending of another movie entirely.
- 25The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe Audition is a harsh, and often cheap, picture that offers a fragmented view of a family diseased by the pursuit of perfection, who yet enable the behavior to continue at the ongoing cost of their happiness.