S1m0ne
New Line Home Video | Release Date: August 23, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
Positive:
11
Mixed:
21
Negative:
6
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88
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Hilariously inventive Hollywood satire. Read full review
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula Nechak
Darkly funny. Read full review
80
Washington PostDesson Thomson
Writer-director Niccol (who wrote and directed "Gattaca" and scripted "The Truman Show") uses disarming, but wicked lightness to damn the celebrity-worshiping culture and Hollywood's beyond-the-looking-glass filmmaking. Read full review
80
TimeRichard Schickel
Simone is a funny, smart, improbably successful satire on contemporary celebrity obsessions, the waning summer's most delirious comedy. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
For all its flaws, offers an enjoyable look at the machinations of moviedom and fame, and a look into a future where what is real and what isn't becomes scarily blurred. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
As the man who made the monster and now has to live with it, Pacino's a blast. Read full review
70
Film ThreatMichael Dequina
With Simone, Niccol makes what seems like a preposterous idea not only fresh and entertaining, but most of all reveals said idea to be not at all far removed from reality--as any good satire should. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
The best scenes play like "Frankenstein" revisited, with a comically bedraggled Pacino cast as the mad scientist trying to protect his runaway creation from a rabid public. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyLisa Kennedy
Niccol gives audiences a very amusing puzzle about authenticity, fraud, and the uses and abuses of technology. That is a fine and funny feat. The very folks responsible for our obsession with celebrity will likely love it. And in loving it, they will no doubt let themselves off the hook. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
The movie pretends to warn against such shallowness -- but flaunts its arousal at how exciting such a controllable world is for those with access to the software. Read full review
63
USA TodayClaudia Puig
A worthy, if flawed, piece of entertainment. Read full review
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