Chapter 27
Vitagraph Films | Release Date: March 28, 2008 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
32
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
7
Negative:
8
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38
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Don't hammer this film for trying to get inside the head of Mark David Chapman before he shot John Lennon outside the rock legend's New York apartment on December 8th, 1980. Hammer it instead for failing to do so with any depth or insight. Read full review
38
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Judah Friedlander and Lindsay Lohan are striking, respectively, as a Lennon paparazzo and a fan creeped out by Chapman. Read full review
30
VarietyDennis Harvey
Jared Leto gained some 70 pounds. Seemingly following his lead, the pic itself is heavy, lethargic, and exasperating. Read full review
30
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
This drama, about the three days leading up to the murder, never overcomes its inherent ghoulishness, largely because Chapman, like so many mentally ill people, is a huge bore. Read full review
25
New York PostKyle Smith
This boring, torpid movie notices its own flaws and unwisely underlines them. Read full review
20
Village VoiceEd Gonzalez
A retarded sense of meta is achieved whenever Leto's Chapman goes on about the phony theatrics of film actors, but it's Lindsay Lohan, as über–Lennon fan Jude, who breaks your heart, looking convincingly horrified that she has three undeserved Razzies while Leto has none. Read full review
0
PremiereGlenn Kenny
Visually ugly, morally non-existent and a complete black hole in the departments of insight and wit, Chapter 27 is quite possibly the most godawful, irredeemable film to yet emerge in the 21st century. Read full review
0
The A.V. ClubNathan Rabin
Perhaps the harshest criticism that can be directed at Chapter 27 is that it's awful even for a late-period Lindsay Lohan movie. It might even be bad enough to inspire "Catcher" author J.D. Salinger to break his decades of public silence to speak out against this high-camp fiasco. Read full review
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