70
If it’s sometimes a little rough around the edges and not always structurally coherent, well, the same was true of these bands.
What are people saying?
What are critics saying?
50
Meet Me in the Bathroom feels like a surface-level music documentary with little mindfulness for creative expression or the shades of reality outside the fame of its subjects.
67
Consequence by Clint Worthington
Vibes can only take you so far, and Southern and Lovelace’s dreamlike approach keeps us from having a firm grip on the chronology of the times. It also feels like an incomplete chronicling of its subject, given its narrow focus on a few bands and the lack of participation of key figures.
67
Meet Me in the Bathroom’s depth is so cursory it can’t quite re-convince us how significant this all seemed at the time.
90
Meet Me in the Bathroom is a moving memory of each band and their legacy in a larger musical landscape. It captures the ethos of each artist and is an excellent visual companion to Lizzy Goodman’s oral history.
68
Paste Magazine by Natalia Keogan
What’s most compelling about the documentary is the archival footage (some previously unseen) of the bands during their first fledgling efforts, though the presence of the tangible music that shot these musicians to stardom remains elusive.
91
Meet Me in the Bathroom is a tremendous document of one of the most integral musical periods of our time, when the kids asked "is this it?" and responded by changing the world.