I Heart Huckabees
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: October 1, 2004 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
55
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Mixed or average reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
20
Mixed:
16
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
Despite the unique premise and some truly inspired casting, the picture remains stuck in an existential rut of its own. Read full review
60
SalonStephanie Zacharek
Feels weirdly impersonal; very little love, or even true thought, shows up on the screen. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
A philosophical comedy about man's place in a universe colonized by Targets and Wal-Marts. Read full review
50
NewsweekDavid Ansen
Ultimately, Huckabees doesn't work. But it sure does stimulate. This is just the kind of "failure" we could use plenty more of. Read full review
50
The New YorkerDavid Denby
Huckabees is the real thing--an authentic disaster--but the picture is so odd that it should inspire, in at least a part of the audience, feelings of fervent loyalty. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter Rainer
The philosophic notions in I Love Huckabees are ultimately not much more than window dressing for some fancy slapstick. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
What in the Buddha's name is going on in I Heart Huckabees? Russell has come up with a grab bag of ideas that don't stick with you because they don't stick together. Read full review
50
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
David O. Russell hasn't yet developed enough filmmaking savvy to juggle so many intellectual, emotional, and narrative elements. He's clever and ambitious, but perhaps too much so. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
When the average comedy is aimed at juvenile 12-year-olds of all ages, the fact that Russell's target audience is precocious 12-year-olds of all ages is a significant improvement without actually being a triumph of mature wit over boorish puerility. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
The cinematic equivalent of the mad-scientist experiment gone awry. It seems to be grooving on its own strangeness, at the expense of its connection with a paying audience. Read full review
50
Film ThreatPete Vonder Haar
The resulting product is so disjointed it's hard to tell if Russell dumbed down the film in the hope of garnering a larger audience, or if I Heart Huckabees simply isn't as smart as it likes to think it is. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerCarrie Rickey
Overstocked farce. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
Individual moments and lines and events in I Heart Huckabees are funny in and of themselves. Viewers may be mystified but will occasionally be amused. It took boundless optimism and energy for Russell to make the film, but it reminds me of the Buster Keaton short where he builds a boat but doesn't know how to get it out of the basement. Read full review
50
Portland OregonianShawn Levy
With its lackluster surfaces and thin core, his (Russell) film displays neither heart nor brains enough to earn its whimsy. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
Everyone up on the screen appears to be having so much fun, you wish the movie found a way to let you into the party. Read full review
40
The New RepublicStanley Kauffmann
Where Russell wobbles in this screenplay, which he wrote with Jeff Baena, is not in his intent but that he omitted to make it funny. Read full review
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