July's film-making is a taste I have yet fully to acquire, but she has a distinctive vision, a style, placed before you on a take-it-or-leave-it basis. I took it.
- Peter Bradshaw, Guardian [UK], November 03, 2011
Not a crowd-pleaser by any measure, but a mature, bold and recklessly inquisitive film, however unpleasant it is to consume in the moment.
- David Jenkins, Time Out, November 01, 2011
July's second film, while not quite as perfectly realised as her debut, nimbly avoids the 'sophomore slump', providing the curious with another window into her highly idiosyncratic world.
- David Hughes, Empire Magazine, October 31, 2011
Miranda July may be a bit too weird for her own good. On the other hand, it is a glorious weird.
- Tom Long, Detroit News, September 02, 2011
What a strange, trippy, touching movie The Future is.
- Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post, August 19, 2011
At times - not all the time, just enough to notice - July gets it backward.
- Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle, August 18, 2011
Miranda July's second feature is beguiling, quietly funny and finally very sad in a way that sneaks up on you before becoming clear as the Los Angeles skies beneath which it's set.
- Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News, August 18, 2011
Not everything about "The Future" works. But most of it does, in a quietly powerful way.
- Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic, August 18, 2011
The Future, July's coy and precious new film, is just oddball enough to be interesting, if not good.
- Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor, August 12, 2011
The actors are quite engaging, in their mopey way.
- Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 11, 2011
July likes her rhythms to shuffle, her beats to go long. She is the master of sideways portent - the small act with big ramifications.
- Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer, August 11, 2011
The notion that both this movie and "Battle: Los Angeles" could come out of the same place, in the same year, is a startling tribute to the city.
- Anthony Lane, New Yorker, August 08, 2011
- Mark Kermode, BBC Radio Five Live, January 22, 2013
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Provides plenty of material for July junkies as well as July detractors.
- John Hartl, Seattle Times, August 25, 2011
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- Geoffrey Macnab, Independent, January 22, 2013
July, who gave us the lovably odd Me and You and Everyone We Know, has layered on so much self-conscious whimsy - monologues from the cat, dialogues with the moon and other dashes of magical realism - that the central drama struggles to be heard.
- Raphael Abraham, Financial Times, November 03, 2011
A playfully self-aware dig at the emptiness of some modern lifestyles that will make you check your own.
- Shelley Jones, Little White Lies, November 03, 2011
