Metacritic Movie Ratings
Cashback Reviews

A sample of reviews from critics across the country.

• 80

  out of 100

  VarietyJustin Chang

  Slickly charming, genteelly erotic and directed with supreme polish, Cashback is a conventional romantic comedy that plays unconventional games with time and memory.

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• 70

  out of 100

  Los Angeles TimesKevin Crust

  Writer-director Sean Ellis more-or-less successfully expands his Academy Award-nominated 18-minute short to full length, showcasing his talented young cast to good effect.

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• 63

  out of 100

  Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert

  The movie is lightweight, as it should be.

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• 50

  out of 100

  Village Voice

  The movie is too cute by half, made close to unbearable whenever Ben's narration spews glib pseudo-profundities about memory and temporal stillness. But the flaky humor of wage slaves serial-killing time is good, rude fun.

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• 40

  out of 100

  The New York Times

  Cashback suggests a "Malcolm in the Middle" episode directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. The hero's pained, hilarious childhood flashbacks deserve a much better movie.

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• 25

  out of 100

  Entertainment WeeklyScott Brown

  Director Sean Ellis has a lovely eye, but he's set the film in his blind spot. Not only can't he distinguish between art and porn, savoring and wallowing, universal truths and exhausted clichs -- he doesn't even seem interested in these distinctions.

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