Marya E. Gates Cool People Have Feelings, Too. (Substack) Jan 30, 2026

[Packs] quite a wallop as she explores not only the possible dissolution of a relationship, but also the entire nature of time itself.

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Jason Adams My New Plaid Pants Jan 14, 2022

Somehow there is narration by a cat wearing a little cast on its leg and it is a beautiful and a heartbreaking thing

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Jordan M. Smith IONCINEMA.com Nov 19, 2020 3/5

The Future doesn't escape its shortcomings, but it is a surreal success non-the-less. July remains an indie icon, fearlessly pursuing her own visions.

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CJ Sheu Critics at Large Jun 30, 2020

[T]he film is so distinctive and eloquent in style that ... [the two protagonists] are utterly compelling to watch as they relinquish their lives to fate and whimsy.

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B. Ruby Rich Film Quarterly Feb 28, 2020

Despite the brilliant July touches... the tone became too winsome, the narrative too forced, the performances too twee.

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Felicia Feaster Charleston City Paper Jan 17, 2020

[T]here is much to recommend in The Future, which has a gravitas and sadness suitable to our restless age.

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Arielle Bernstein The Nervous Breakdown Jun 25, 2019

I actually view this move as incredibly, unequivocally ballsy.

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Tara Thorne The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia) Nov 16, 2018

Miranda July is a divisive force and a rare, vital talent.

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Deborah Ross The Spectator Aug 31, 2018

Didn't get it. Might have got it if I'd concentrated more, but I lost the will. Readers, I'm not proud of this, but will say it anyhow: I was baffled.

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Shelagh Rowan-Legg That Shelf May 14, 2018

July has a fascination for strangers, and how the comforts of the ordinary life perhaps become so comfortable that our reaction is to break out in rather unconventional and perhaps inadvisable ways.

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Yasmin Shehab Cairo360 Dec 15, 2017 4/5

As the writer, director and actor, July does a fantastic job in merging all of these odd bits and pieces such as the talking cat, frozen time and conversations with the moon, making a film that is so evocative of a mood and state of being.

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Fernando F. Croce MUBI Dec 15, 2017

How much further July can push her blend of whimsy and pain remains to be seen, but this is arguably the strangest study of artistic and parental anxiety since Eraserhead.

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Pablo Villaça Cinema em Cena Apr 25, 2013 1/5

Parece apenas interessado em lanar o meme dos "Lolcatz" como gnero cinematogrfico.

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Dave White Movies.com Jan 22, 2013 4.5/5

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Matthew Turner ViewLondon Jan 22, 2013 3/5

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Norman Wilner NOW Toronto Jan 22, 2013 2/5

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