Invictus
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: December 11, 2009 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 34 Critic Reviews
Positive:
27
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk Honeycutt
A temperate, evenhanded perhaps overly timid film about an intemperate time in South Africa. Read full review
60
Village VoiceElla Taylor
Like every Eastwood production, Invictus is stately, handsomely mounted, attentive to detail right down to the Marmite adorning the team's breakfast buffet, and relentlessly conventional. As a portrait of a hero, the movie effortlessly brings a lump to the throat (Freeman gives a subtly crafted performance that blends Mandela's physical frailty with his easy charm and cerebral wit); as history, it is borderline daft and selective to the point of distortion. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua Rothkopf
The movie isn’t adventurous, but I’m sure glad it exists. Read full review
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
Anthony Peckham's script is formulaic, woodenly reverent, and devoid of real dramatic tension. Read full review
60
EmpireIan Nathan
Eastwood hits all the right notes in exactly the right order, but it’s his least personal film for a while. Read full review
50
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
The result is earnest, admirable and more than a little dull -- a pedestrian movie about a remarkable subject. Read full review
50
SlateDana Stevens
As a non-South African, I can't speak to the accuracy of the movie's racial politics, but they feel insultingly vague. Read full review
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