| Critics
Reviews |
Average
Grade: |
B- |
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|
Source |
Brief Review |
Grade* |
Atlanta
Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie |
"Fanciful,
funny and very smart."
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B |
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris |
"The casting is
so conventional that you can imagine the
actors were hired by committee."
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C- |
Chicago
Sun-Times
Roger Ebert |
"What a
thoughtful film this is, and how
thought-stirring."
more... |
A- |
Chicago
Tribune
Michael Phillips |
"Live your life
to the fullest, the movie says. Nothing new
there, but it's a nice reminder."
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B |
E! Online
Caroline Kepnes |
"The concept is
highbrow, indeed. But a concept is nothing
without momentum."
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C+ |
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman |
"...an
eminently easy-to-watch piece of one-joke
pop japery..."
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B- |
filmcritic.com
Chris Cabin |
"The scenes
between Gyllenhaal and Ferrell are
remarkably sweet and ethereal without being
overly sentimental."
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B |
Hollywood
Reporter
John DeFore |
"...more
heart-warming than experimental."
more... |
B |
New York
Post
Kyle Smith |
"With its
musings on free will and God, the story may
not be original, but caring about its hero
is automatic for the audience. That's more
than most movies can say."
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B- |
New York
Times
A.O. Scott |
"The ending is
a nicely executed bit of metaphysical farce,
in which all the strands of Harold's fate
converge, but the final notes are more than
a little false."
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B- |
ReelViews
James Berardinelli |
"...does a lot
of things exceedingly well and almost none
poorly."
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A- |
Rolling
Stone
Peter Travers |
"...a gently
absurdist fable."
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B |
San
Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle |
"What might
have been a joke with a tagged-on
sentimental ending becomes instead a
sensitive movie that affirms the value of
life."
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B |
Seattle
Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold |
"...tiresomely
written, badly acted by a stellar cast and
ploddingly directed..."
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C- |
USA Today
Claudia Puig |
"...a tribute
to the power of literature."
more... |
B |
