Puzzle
Sony Pictures Classics | Release Date: July 27, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
66
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 36 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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60
The GuardianMike McCahillJul 26, 2018
There is modest craft and genuine heart here, not to mention an eye-catching centrepiece: an actor growing more certain of herself, and more capable than ever of holding an entire picture together – even one as unusual, and sometimes as unlikely, as this. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter Debruge
We should be grateful that it exists, if only because it affords a long-overdue leading role to Kelly Macdonald. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAug 22, 2018
That is really the reason to see this movie: the lovely performances of Macdonald and Khan. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleAug 2, 2018
In any case, Puzzle ends strangely, in a way that’s not clear what the filmmakers intended or how we’re supposed to feel about it. It’s entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional. Read full review
50
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternJul 26, 2018
Puzzle is less puzzling than exasperating. What’s good is exceptional — a meeting of minds, and then more, between two jigsaw-puzzle prodigies — while the rest is perfunctory or lifeless. Read full review
50
Village VoiceAlan ScherstuhlJul 26, 2018
Since it’s hard to buy the character, it’s hard to buy the story, no matter how good Macdonald is. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubJesse HassengerJul 23, 2018
It’s hard to fault Puzzle for going in a more rigorous, serious-minded direction... until it trudges in that direction with such repetition. Turtletaub and his screenwriters lay the borderline-anachronistic details of their heroine’s oppressive life on so thick that the movie starts to sag. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineJosh WiseJul 11, 2018
The film buoyed by Kelly Macdonald, who's a master of understated vulnerability, but she can't steer it out of the doldrums. Read full review
40
The TelegraphTim RobeySep 9, 2018
So what’s to dislike here? Hardly anything – it’s finding things actively to like that poses more of a problem. Read full review
40
The AtlanticDavid SimsAug 1, 2018
Puzzle is often too prosaic for its own good. Read full review
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