21 Grams
Focus Features | Release Date: November 21, 2003 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
31
Mixed:
5
Negative:
5
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30
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
It’s forceful, to be sure, but in a lurid way that suggests a telenovela that’s been baking in the sun too long. Read full review
30
The New YorkerDavid Denby
The kind of bad movie that makes a reviewer feel terrible. It has been put together with great sincerity, and yet, impassioned and affecting as some of it is, 21 Grams is also an arrogant failure. [24 November 2003, p. 113]
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
Where "Amores Perros" was a feast of energy, wit and imagination, 21 Grams is like a starvation diet -- a movie that wallows so profoundly in its own misery that watching it is like atoning for some sin you didn't commit. Read full review
30
SlateDavid Edelstein
As usual with Penn, I don't completely buy the character, but I completely buy that he has brilliantly internalized SOMETHING. He goes to some weird psychological places, our Sean. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
It's so laden with foreboding, you want to get out from under it and gasp for air. Read full review
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