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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 90
    Variety | Robert Koehler

    The elusive, quicksilver nature of young love is often reduced to crude simplicities by the movies, but director Sebastien Lifshitz and writing partner Stephane Bouquet have observed it with a superb balance of aesthetics and insight in Come Undone. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Brings maximum subtlety, nuance and insight into the timeless story of first love. Read full review

  • 80
    L.A. Weekly | Ernest Hardy

    A melancholy valentine to broken hearts and lost innocence. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    The photography is strong, the performances sympathetic and the sex plentiful. Read full review

  • 75
    Philadelphia Inquirer | Desmond Ryan

    A delicately managed piece that is by turns intimately detailed and elliptical, and that's an approach that suits the tangled emotions of its two protagonists. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice | Dennis Lim

    Come Undone's true subject is, simply enough, the perspective-warping enormity of first love, as preserved in a scrapbook of before-and-after snapshots. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    Ultimately, Come Undone isn't a movie about homosexuality, depression or family dynamics. For a gay coming-out story, its sexual politics are extremely muted. Read full review

  • 67
    Austin Chronicle | Marrit Ingman

    If the sensitive coming-of-age love story is a well-worn tradition in gay cinema, Come Undone is at the very least a superior example of it. Read full review

  • 50
    Boston Globe |

    Achingly slow, at times bleak and, in the end, frustratingly and regrettably, rather pointless. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    There isn't much here besides two self-absorbed kids. Read full review

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