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12 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 81The VergeTasha RobinsonThe VergeTasha RobinsonIn the end, it doesn’t feel like Jonathan fully commits to its own premise.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe debut feature succeeds thanks to a credibly bifurcated performance by star Ansel Elgort.
- 70VarietyDennis HarveyVarietyDennis HarveyTaken on its own confidently crafted terms, Jonathan is an intelligent, absorbing tale that provides an impressive showcase for “Baby Driver” star Ansel Elgort.
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakFor forty minutes we become intimately aware of Oliver’s sci-fi conceit through heightened emotions, visual puzzles, and potential betrayals. It’s the perfect set-up for a thriller built on exclusion and yet it becomes much more.
- 63Slant MagazinePat BrownSlant MagazinePat BrownThe dichotomy represented by Jonathan and John is too clean for the film's exploration of a divided psyche to ever feel particularly complex.
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriNew York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriJonathan is good enough for us to want it to be better.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreJonathan plays like an intellectual puzzle that isn’t challenging enough, an acting exercise that has everything but emotional connection and a tour de force robbed of its force by just lying there, inert when it should be picking up steam, cold when the characters and scenario should be heating up.
- 50The New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe New York TimesBen KenigsbergThe movie, itself somewhat torn in sensibility, permits itself an easy out.
- 50Los Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenLos Angeles TimesMichael RechtshaffenWhile Elgort, whose big breakout role was in last year’s “Baby Driver,” does a decent job of delineating the two characters and Patricia Clarkson reliably comes through as their sympathetic doctor, the clinically distancing production never forms a meaningful bond with its audience.
- 40TheWrapDan CallahanTheWrapDan CallahanOliver makes sure that every scene in Jonathan is slow, earnest, tidy, and very cautious, and he pulls back from anything that might be too dramatic.