“The trans-generational citations come fast and furious, never lingered on for more than a sharply inhaled breath. Both Sweeney and Findlay are more than up to the task of playing arrested millennials dancing around their problems, forever walking a fine line between charm and aggravation. And Sweeney as filmmaker effectively goes the Wes Anderson route of letting emotion bust through all the aesthetic archness at key moments.”
— Hollywood Reporter
“It’s the battle between what they feel for each other and what they believe their relationship should amount to that gives “Straight Up” its most memorable qualities. Beyond Todd’s exasperating peculiarities or Rory’s vocal disenchantment with acting, what’s at stake is the validity of the life they’ve started to build together in a world hell-bent to conclusively determine what they are, where they fall on the Kinsey spectrum, or if their sentiments for each other are real.”
