360
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: August 3, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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3
Mixed:
18
Negative:
3
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanAug 1, 2012
360 has a circular structure that's deftly pleasing, though the human drama is just facile enough to make it seem, in the end, a little too much like connect the dots played with people. Read full review
65
NPRElla TaylorAug 6, 2012
Meirelles, who made the exciting "City of God" and "The Constant Gardener," has visual flair to burn. But he's less comfortable with inner lives than he is with feverish physical motion, and though the film is meant as a meditation on love and the post-modern psyche, it's shot like a thriller. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames BerardinelliJul 30, 2012
It is disappointing (and a little boring). The chief problem relates to structure. The film unspools more like a puzzle than a cohesive narrative. Read full review
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierAug 2, 2012
The reason director Fernando Meirelles' intimate drama 360 succeeds where other adaptations of Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 sexual circle-back play "La Ronde" haven't is, ironically, because it puts less emphasis on body heat and more on intellectual coolness. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttJul 20, 2012
La Ronde 2011-style is simply a game and its makers expert gamesmen. The film is never less than intriguing. But the artifice shows all too clearly. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubAlison WillmoreAug 1, 2012
Fittingly for its occasional ring imagery, 360 is hollow in the middle. Read full review
58
The PlaylistCory EverettJul 31, 2012
If the film had not been afraid to go a little darker (like its sexually frank opening), dig a little deeper, and develop its characters beyond their stereotypes, it would have been a much stronger effort. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianMarc MohanAug 30, 2012
As the action moves from Vienna to Paris to London to Denver to Phoenix and then back again, the vignettes blur into one another. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleAmy BiancolliAug 9, 2012
Much like its own characters, it dithers too much - and it dares too little. Read full review
50
TimeRichard CorlissAug 6, 2012
No scene lasts more than a few minutes, but the overall is effect is being subjected to 105 mins. of YouTube vignettes that someone has chosen. 360 is probably best appreciated or endured on a long flight similar to the one Hopkins takes in the movie. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenAug 2, 2012
To their credit, both Meirelles and his cast infuse as much realism into the artifice as they can muster, but it's not nearly enough. The too-neat script boxes them in, and leave us out. In that sense, 360 doesn't so much connect our shrunken world as strangle the life from it – the circle feels like a noose. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerAug 3, 2012
Morgan is a wonderful writer when he's working from the headlines, but his "personal" movies, like "Hereafter" and this one, release a bleary, pseudo-profound aspect of his talent that's best left in the dark. Read full review
40
EmpirePhilip WildingAug 6, 2012
A great disappointment by the "City Of God" man's high standards. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriAug 3, 2012
How odd then that a film all about human connections manages to make none of its own. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenAug 2, 2012
Hopkins' character is the most fully realized in the movie, complete with a monologue that the actor makes work, even if its carpe diem message-mongering is as unconvincing as most everything else in 360. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla DargisAug 2, 2012
There's no way to know what went wrong with 360 and whether it was this uninvolving and shallow from the start. Read full review
40
SalonAndrew O'HehirAug 2, 2012
It's easy to hate movies that are abundantly terrible or immoral or stupid, but I almost feel like a jerk telling you that Fernando Meirelles' globetrotting drama 360 is a mistake from beginning to end. Read full review
40
Village VoiceNick PinkertonJul 31, 2012
There are fleeting moments, but Morgan's narrative promiscuity leaves 360 feeling only spread out and empty. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichJul 31, 2012
Scene by scene, you want to laugh at all the ham-fisted kismet, even if the committed cast holds your attention. Hopkins is especially good in his chaste May-September interactions with Flor, and he has an AA confessional that is genuinely moving. Read full review
40
Total FilmMatt MuellerJul 30, 2012
Banal, blundering and at times downright ludicrous, 360 is a full-circle misfire that Meirelles' lively images can't salvage. Read full review
40
VarietyPeter DebrugeJul 20, 2012
With a multilingual cast of mostly unfamiliar faces, plus a few stars, 360 feels too abstract, orchestrating break-ups and hook-ups in a passionless vacuum. Read full review
38
Washington PostStephanie MerryAug 16, 2012
If nothing else, the movie reminds filmgoers just how difficult it can be to pull off the multi-thread approach. Sometimes it's possible to take a spool of yarn and, with care and consistency, knit a stunning creation. 360 looks more like what happens when a cat gets ahold of the ball. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineR. Kurt OsenlundAug 1, 2012
Directed by Fernando Meirelles from a dusty script by Peter Morgan, 360 is all superficial stimulation, hollow and stiff as it beats the dead horse of we're-all-connected narratives. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle SmithAug 3, 2012
A sort of "Babel" of bonking, 360 gives us much in the way of international anguish, frustrated coupling and longing stares, but there's very little plausibility or genuine emotion in its egregiously contrived story of ardor gone amiss. Read full review
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