Max
Lions Gate Films | Release Date: December 27, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
17
Mixed:
8
Negative:
5
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60
VarietyTodd McCarthy
The film is ultimately too glib in its suggestion that Hitler's discovering his career path was a matter of sheerest chance, even an accident. Read full review
58
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
No doubt about it, the movie is morbidly fascinating. Moreover, Cusack gives a delicate and agreeably world-weary performance. Read full review
50
SlateDavid Edelstein
As a ravishingly photographed, high-minded meditation on the potential of art and therapy to exorcise the vilest sort of psychological poison, it is positively riotous -- an Everest of idiocy. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
What does make the film disturbing is the way in which it positions Hitler as a mere mouthpiece for what was already in the air, a role he was convinced to play after suffering one disappointment too many at the hands of Jews like Rothman. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
The whole film occupies pretty much the same continuuum -- glimmers of intelligence followed by moments of outright hysteria punctuated by bouts of sheer haplessness. Read full review
50
Village VoiceJ. Hoberman
For all its flaws, Max does propose a credible young Hitler, played by Noah Taylor as an unpleasantly opinionated, arrogantly ascetic, defensively vain autodidact with a diffident sneer and a bottomless well of grievance to draw upon. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Ultimately, Meyjes focuses too much on Max when he should be filling the screen with this tortured, dull artist and monster-in-the-making. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Suggests that had young Adolf Hitler managed to get his art show, the Holocaust might never have happened. This seems absurd, not to say insensitive. Read full review
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