Cain Noble-Davies FILMINK (Australia) Dec 9, 2024 15/20

The only bombing taking place here is inside the chests of the audience.

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn Cinencuentro Jan 27, 2022 4/5

It may have some technical flaws - weird cuts, awkward camera movements - but they're not enough to spoil the good acting and entertaining script. [Full review in Spanish]

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Aine O'Connor Sunday Independent (Ireland) Oct 8, 2021 4/5

Overall it's clever, wise, sometimes funny, and always sweet.

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Rich Cline Shadows on the Wall Oct 8, 2021 4/5

This wry, knowing comedy is a terrific writing-directing debut for 24-year-old actor Cooper Raiff.

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Emily Maskell Little White Lies Oct 4, 2021 4/5

Raiff deserves all the credit he's getting.

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Brian Viner Daily Mail (UK) Oct 2, 2021 4/5

If you've ever been homesick or have children who have suffered, it will doubtless strike a chord.

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John Nugent Empire Magazine Oct 2, 2021 4/5

A funny, tender treat.

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Tom Bond One Room With A View Oct 1, 2021 3/5

Freshman Year, the debut feature from writer, director and lead, Cooper Raiff, shows promise with a distinctive perspective on the college/uni experience, but ultimately falls back on disappointing romcom clichés.

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Kevin Maher The Times (UK) Oct 1, 2021 2/5

These two make Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, from the Before movies, seem like Rhodes scholars, and a lot less fragile too.

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Peter Bradshaw Guardian Oct 1, 2021 3/5

Life can be desperately embarrassing in your first year at university when you are trying out new identities and personalities. This film replicates that agonising discomfort.

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Audrey Fox JumpCut Online Aug 28, 2021

There's no film that captures the bizarre, funny, and deeply awkward experience of life at university better than Shithouse.

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Peter Gray The AU Review Aug 6, 2021 3.5/5

A not-always predictable outing that enjoys removing the sugar coating so many of these genre efforts adhere to.

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Steven Warner In Review Online Jun 5, 2021

There is a specificity to everything on display here that marks it as something personal, and that authenticity is bracing.

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Matt Brunson Film Frenzy May 23, 2021 3/4

It's a poor title for this film, as it makes a sensitive tale about the college experience sound like a vulgar raunchfest whose script was deemed too lowbrow even by Adam Sandler.

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Peter Canavese Celluloid Dreams May 8, 2021 2.5/4

Shaggy, college-set, coming-of-age comedy/drama starring an interesting, unconventional lead. (Blu-ray highlight: Cooper Raiff's hour-long short film 'Madeline and Cooper').

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Shikhar Verma High on Films Apr 25, 2021 3.5/5

Shithouse is just the kind of film that I resonate with and I am thankful that it exists.

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Yago Paris El antepenúltimo mohicano Mar 18, 2021 4/5

A small indie gem. [Full review in Spanish]

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid Jan 28, 2021 3.5/4

The title certainly does not convey how actually sweet and nuanced this college-level character drama really is.

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Fletcher Powell KMUW - Wichita Public Radio Jan 27, 2021

The way the characters in the film talk and act is ... so real that it sometimes gets to be hard to watch ...

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David Bax Battleship Pretension Jan 13, 2021

With the exception of an unnecessary and overly neat epilogue, Shithouse is an unforced, patient and unpredictable first film.

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