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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80The Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberThe Hollywood ReporterStephen FarberCooper seizes control of the movie when he’s onscreen, but the two young leads are also enormously appealing.
- 80TheWrapTricia OlszewskiTheWrapTricia OlszewskiDespite its missteps, Coming Through the Rye is a sweet and inviting road trip.
- 75ObserverRex ReedObserverRex ReedSpecial praise goes to Alex Wolff as Jamie and Stefania Owen as his sympathetic, agreeable girlfriend Dee Dee, and veteran actor Chris Cooper makes a complex but astonishingly convincing cameo as the great Jerome David Salinger himself. I went to Coming Through the Rye expecting nothing and left feeling enriched, enlightened and warm all over.
- 75RogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireRogerEbert.comGodfrey CheshireComing Through the Rye may be the closest we’ll ever get cinematically to the novel. And in being so far away from it, it’s close enough.
- 70The New York TimesAndy WebsterThe New York TimesAndy WebsterAs Salinger, the formidable Chris Cooper has a brief but masterly turn, sympathetically rendering the writer as a curmudgeon defending his literary offspring.
- 70Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenLos Angeles TimesSheri LindenSadwith, whose TV credits include the miniseries “Sinatra,” conjures a few memorable moments in his big-screen debut. But the most stirring moment belongs to Cooper, who turns a barely audible, exasperated sigh into a complicated life story.
- 67The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakIt’s not a perfect film...but it’s one that resonates for anyone who’s ever been touched by a book, movie, painting, or song and had their world shift into something it wasn’t before.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreWriter/director James Steven Sadwith’s autobiographical coming-of-age film doesn’t have a lot of originality to it, in spite of the nearly-unique nature of his youthful encounter with the Great Writer. But Cooper’s turn gives it weight and life.
- 50Village VoiceNick SchagerVillage VoiceNick SchagerRegardless of its capable performances and understated direction, and no matter that it was inspired by Sadwith’s own hunt for Salinger, Coming Through the Rye comes across as a cute conceit incapable of sustaining a substantial feature.
- 50Boston GlobePeter KeoughBoston GlobePeter KeoughIronically, the phoniness that iconic teen romantic Holden Caulfield despised pervades Jim Sadwith’s Coming through the Rye, a semi-autobiographical tale of hero worship and literary integrity.