In New York City's late nineties, a young aspiring writer lands a day-job at J.D. Salinger's literary agency. While her eccentric and old-fashioned boss tasks her to process Salinger's voluminous fan mail, she struggles to find her own voice.... (Full plot summary below)
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In New York City's late nineties, a young aspiring writer lands a day-job at J.D. Salinger's literary agency. While her eccentric and old-fashioned boss tasks her to process Salinger's voluminous fan mail, she struggles to find her own voice.
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| Original-CinThom ErnstThere are remarkable and rewarding moments in the film despite its lack of bite. |
| Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinJoanna’s journey of creative and emotional enlightenment — including the balancing act of trying to write when consumed by a day job — is managed with grace, tenderness and touching credibility by a wonderfully winning Qualley in concert with Philippe Falardeau’s smart, engaging direction and screenplay. |
| Movie NationRoger MooreThis cast and this world make for a grand escape from the mundane necessities of life as we’re immersed in a coming-of-age tale like few others, one that should make anybody with a soft spot for Salinger and empathy for those who had to “manage” him just a tad envious. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperIn the borderline trifling but consistently amusing and wry period piece My Salinger Year, Qualley has the opportunity to carry the story, and she delivers an effortlessly endearing performance in a literary adventure that plays like The Devil Wears Prada meets Can You Ever Forgive Me, only at lower stakes. |
| The PlaylistJack KingWhile My Salinger Year is not always successful in the larger debate it tries to have around how we can define authorship, and how the commercialization of writing infringes upon creativity, the film’s central narrative following Joanna’s conflicting aspirations as a writer largely succeeds. |
| The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzAfter watching the film twice in quick succession – a futile attempt at catching a glimpse of what usually makes a Falardeau film so immensely watchable (see the Quebecois filmmaker’s Monsieur Lazhar, The Good Lie, My Internship in Canada and Chuck) – My Salinger Year ultimately lands as a mere footnote. |
| The Irish TimesTara BradyWatchable, if a bit lopsided, it’s far from the catastrophe that some of the more unkind reviews have suggested. |
| IndieWireEric KohnMy Salinger Year often trips on the self-serious nature of its premise, and struggles with an antiquated quality out of sync with its timeline, as if trapped between the character’s genuine experiences and her idealized vision of a literary world that doesn’t really exist. |
| The TelegraphTim RobeyBuoyed by an appealing duet of star turns from Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrMy Salinger Year isn’t much, but it isn’t phony. |
