Stay
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: October 21, 2005 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 29 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
15
Negative:
8
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38
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
If "The Sixth Sense" was a bad movie redeemed by its surprise ending, Marc Forster's Stay is a seemingly good movie leading to a devastating letdown. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
Gosling's been better elsewhere but delivers an adequate performance. McGregor and Watts seem baffled most of the time, as well they might be. Forster keeps us from drifting off with inventive camerawork; in this case, that's like saying a hideous suit has well-stitched lapels. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyScott Foundas
A steaming compost heap of high-art pretense and half-cocked psychoanalysis that almost makes you sorry Nicolas Roeg isn't making pictures anymore. Read full review
30
Washington PostDesson Thomson
That mind-bending, mystical business was better handled in such films as 1990's "Jacob's Ladder." Read full review
30
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Marc Forster takes a maximalist approach to this mumbo jumbo, which means that in addition to lots of wacky angles, shiny surfaces, seemingly endless stairs, and sets of twins, triplets and quadruplets, he deploys the unsettling vision of three talented actors - Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts and Ryan Gosling - straining credulity and neck tendons in the service of serious claptrap. Read full review
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
A trite, incoherent and pretentious bomb. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleNeva Chonin
Visuals can't fill a spiritual vacuum, and Stay remains a pretty package that's empty on the inside. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
Neither thrilling nor psychological, but it's chicly shot and edited and is pretty much art-directed to death. Read full review
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