Mr. Nobody
Magnolia Pictures | Release Date: November 1, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
63
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 10 Critic Reviews
Positive:
5
Mixed:
3
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanOct 31, 2013
Van Dormael has crafted a saga that, even at two-plus hours, is endlessly, enormously watchable. Read full review
83
Portland OregonianMarc MohanOct 31, 2013
van Dormael’s vivid visual sense and genuine curiosity about the nature of love and life, time and death, make it well worth surrendering to his imagination for a while. Read full review
80
The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungNov 1, 2013
Van Dormael's intriguing script is more than matched in his flamboyant direction of this 2-hour-plus tale, heroically edited by Matyas Veress and Susan Shipton into a fluid, generally understandable narrative. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergOct 30, 2013
As philosophy, Mr. Nobody seems sillier than it is profound. But in a parallel reality, more movies would have this degree of insane ambition. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreOct 30, 2013
Writer-director Jaco Van Dormael (“Toto the Hero”) spins flashbacks and time-lapse photography, stunning montages, whirling, circling cameras and stunning underwater, deep space and Martian landscape photography into a film that is as intentionally opaque as it is overlong. Read full review
60
The DissolveMike D'AngeloOct 1, 2013
In the end, Mr. Nobody’s title is simply too apt. Read full review
60
VarietyBoyd van HoeijSep 13, 2013
Though a lot of it is well written and directed and, quite often, funny or poignant, the individual scenes rarely become part of a larger whole. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterSep 13, 2013
An ambitious, if uneven, experimental sci-fi romance that is less a thought-provoker than a dazzling juggling act. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 28, 2013
The only truly graspable notion the film can be said to put forth is one of increasingly tedious sci-fi-romantic genre busy-ness. Read full review
25
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthSep 13, 2013
Mr. Nobody is simply a failure. Read full review
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