Sympathy for Delicious
Maya Entertainment | Release Date: April 29, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierApr 29, 2011
Though Bloom feels like he dropped in from another movie, it all spins on screenwriter Thornton's charismatic performance, which also accounts for the survival instinct inside the film. Read full review
60
Time OutAlison WillmoreApr 26, 2011
A mess-but a beautiful one, crammed with enough big ideas and outsize performances for three movies. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeApr 26, 2011
Ruffalo gives voice to the film's unironic point of view. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsApr 28, 2011
The character's miraculous gift never plays as more than a melodramatic contrivance-it's a gimmick, not an outgrowth of faith. The movie reaches for the heart, but only comes back with a balloon filled with fake blood and chicken livers. Read full review
50
New York PostLou LumenickApr 29, 2011
Interesting but never compelling. Read full review
50
ObserverRex ReedApr 26, 2011
An odd, confusing, ugly and mostly indigestible movie about religious hysteria and rock 'n' roll-two subjects I find about as interesting as opening a tattoo parlor. I wish I liked the movie half as much as I like the actor. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichelle OrangeApr 26, 2011
Ruffalo has assembled an exceptional cast-to surround writer and star Christopher Thornton, but a script that favors incident over story and direction that crowds scenes instead of letting them breathe make for curiously rough going. Read full review
42
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerApr 29, 2011
This semiexpressionist fantasia is a botch. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenApr 28, 2011
Despite the powerful sense of place, Sympathy for Delicious unwinds a narrative thread that grows increasingly tattered and flimsy. Read full review
40
The New York TimesStephen HoldenApr 28, 2011
These characters may serve an obscure metaphorical agenda, but they make no psychological sense. And as the movie contemplates the rewards and perils of giving and receiving, it winds itself into stomach-turning knots. Read full review
40
VarietyDennis HarveyApr 26, 2011
This offbeat effort proves more admirable for its ambition than anything else, as the uneasy mix of satire, allegory, grittiness and redemption never quite jells. Read full review
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