Katie Says Goodbye

Audience Reviews

View More

Alain E @AlainE 4d This fell totally flat. The heroine is a small town young waitress, who apparently can leave her restaurant in the middle of her shift to go to a motel in order to have sex with truck drivers and the like. She has not finished high school and appears to be totally clueless. Her mother doesn’t work and instead is having sex with various male neighbors, unclear if with compensation. The whole thing appears aimless. I lasted 14:35. Never made it to San Francisco. See more Hazy W @HazyWave 03/02/2023 Definitely not for everyone, and I wouldn't say I enjoyed it. But it's well made, and Olivia Cooke gives a once-in-a-lifetime performance. See more 10/12/2021 all things considered, I have to go back to "Baghdad café" to find the same treatment of the atmosphere, the characters and the same emotions, (can sometimes be awkwardly excessive) special mention for Olivia Cooke, a great actress pity for those who did not understand the end. See more ronald h @RT44372985 01/13/2021 My star rating is for Olivia Cooke, who keeps your eyes riveted on her throughout. It's not about beauty or sexiness; it's a type of magnetism that's hard to explain. Hopefully, she will be in some better films in the future. Not that this one is all bad, it's just that it's so grim that it becomes overwhelming. It's like the writer kept thinking, "OK, what terrible thing can I do to her next?" It's a film that aims for hard core realism, yet it's totally unrealistic. Katie's unrelenting naivete is unrealistic; the nasty men are unrealistic; the school teacher, the cop, the landlord, the mother--Good grief, this has to be the most evil town in cinema history. Even the one decent guy, played convincingly by Jim Belushi, is not entirely without culpability. Mary Steenburgen fares well as a caring surrogate mother figure, in contrast to all the detestable people in Katie's life. Watch this one with skepticism, and don't expect a happy ending. But keep an eye out for Olivia Cooke. She can really act. See more lucca b @RT71313241 06/25/2020 It's heavy themes may not be handled in the most careful way, but its emotional story and Olivia Cooke's superb lead performance make this film worth watching. See more 02/28/2020 A lot of critics are being myopic, if not outright hypocritical, about their reviews, apparently depending on where the film comes from and whether their white/West privileged guilt kicks in or not. To bash "Katie Says Goodbye" (which, granted, isn't so good) as being 'nearly 90 minutes of terrible things happening to the protagonist', or saying 'the lead character is so utterly guileless and innocent and kindhearted -- she's essentially a smiley face with a "KICK ME" sign taped to her back while heaping nothing but praise on "House of Hummingbird" is absurd bs. "HoH" is just as relentlessly miserable as "Katie...", but it's even more troubling and a friggin' bummer. So that makes it that much better, that's it's more depressing and worse to the lead? Both are movies with the same issues that could've been solid, impressive films, imo. See more Read all reviews

Katie Says Goodbye

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING