Source Code
Summit Entertainment | Release Date: April 1, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
74
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 41 Critic Reviews
Positive:
34
Mixed:
7
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
NPRScott TobiasApr 1, 2011
Based on its thrillingly fractured first half - not to mention "Moon" in its entirety - Jones seems much smarter than he allows the film to be in the end. It wriggles out of its own intriguing puzzle. Read full review
60
Time OutKeith UhlichMar 29, 2011
What begins as a tense, inventive suspense film becomes, to paraphrase Doctor Who, a wibbly-wobbly, timey-wimey, mushy-wushy mess. That's decidedly NOT fantastic. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttMar 14, 2011
The movie boils down to one character, acting under enormous pressures of space and time, racing to solve a mystery. In this case, that may be good enough. Read full review
50
TimeMary PolsApr 3, 2011
It is a tremendous downer when the second half of the movie shirks logic, defies its own established principles and raises more questions than it answers. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerDavid HiltbrandMar 31, 2011
Gyllenhaal is particularly unsuited to this role, his saucer eyes flashing from calm to crazed. Read full review
50
VarietyAndrew BarkerMar 14, 2011
Solid execution and some provocative ideas can't save Source Code from a fatal hubris, as it thinks itself far more clever than it actually is and assumes it's earned emotions at which it's only hinted. Read full review
40
MovielineElvis MitchellMar 31, 2011
Somewhere under all that bloat is the greatest short subject of all time. Read full review
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