Entertainment Weekly
"[C]harming....Bujalkski works in streaky black and white, looking back all the more to Cassavetes..." -- Grade: B 09/08/2006 p.139Film Comment
Ranked #17 in Film Comment's "20 Best Films Of 2006." 01/01/2007 p.36 Premiere
3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Writer-director Bujalski has an authentic sense of the meandering daily lives and navel-gazing conversations of young urbanites..." 04/01/2007 p.88 Sight and Sound
"In Andrew Bujalski's micro-budget comedies, about the shapeless lives of American twentysomethings, things almost happen, repeatedly....The sense of narrative incompletion is evoked most effectively in Bujalski's editing style." 05/01/2007 p.73 Ultimate DVD
3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he naturalistic approach is part of the charm of the film, evidently inspired by the two giants of US indie cinema John Cassavetes and Jim Jarmusch." 06/01/2007 p.104 Ozus' World Movie Reviews 9 of 10
The film ends like all Bujalski's scenes end, he simply cuts away from the action and leaves us in the dark to make of it whatever we can. Since the characters are best understood when they are unsure of their own footing and their riffs always end up unclear, the brilliance of this paradoxical comic dramatization is that it doesn't have to go anywhere to arrive at where it's going. The often stale contemporary movie scene for the youth market needs films like this to pump new blood into its system, as after seeing so many recent Hollywood and indie formulaic films about these very people this seems to be the best one to get at the human condition and what the hell is going down with these disenfranchised young bloods. - Dennis Schwartz
Chicago Tribune 8 of 10
"Mutual Appreciation" is a realistic comic movie about a raffish young Boston singer-composer named Alan (Justin Rice) and his erratic (and sometimes erotic) adventures after he moves to New York and his band breaks up. And though what follows may sometimes seem like a too-obvious wish-fulfillment youth fantasy about crashing the big-city scene, writer-director-actor-editor Andrew Bujalski - who made the well-regarded "Funny Ha Ha" (2002) - has a flair for casual naturalism and dialogue to match. He and the cast make it work. - Michael Wilmington
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