The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
Music Box Films | Release Date: May 8, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
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Mixed or average reviews based on 15 Critic Reviews
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80
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerMay 7, 2015
The film genre that might be called Old People Behaving Hilariously gets an appealing new entry with The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, a sometimes daffy, often droll Swedish movie. Read full review
75
Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaMay 29, 2015
This peripatetic farce practically propels itself. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesBetsy SharkeyMay 7, 2015
There is a great deal of silliness about Allan's journey from start to finish and no real message other than to never stop taking life as it comes. But there is also a great deal of fun in watching a 100-year-old man climb out a window and disappear. Read full review
70
Wall Street JournalJohn AndersonMay 7, 2015
Consistently daffy, consistently amusing. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubMike D'AngeloMay 7, 2015
The 100-Year-Old Man surely won’t conquer the U.S. box office, but it’s a nice change of pace to see a foreign film that isn’t deadly serious. We could use more subtitled belly laughs. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsMay 28, 2015
Be forewarned: The 100-Year-Old Man is edgier than its title would lead you to believe. Bad guys are bludgeoned, blown up and even crushed by an elephant, and the two duffers take a lassez-faire attitude toward disposing of them. Read full review
63
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyMay 8, 2015
This movie, as it happens, is a comedy, but it’s a frequently grisly one, and one that makes rollicking fun of a lot of dark Swedish preoccupations. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeMay 16, 2015
The script never quite succeeds in making us care about Allan as a character (despite dubbing its quavering narration into English for the ease of American auds), but it finds an interesting balance for a personality who leaves a trail of disaster in his wake. Read full review
60
Arizona RepublicSuzanne Condie LambertMay 7, 2015
Despite the heavy themes, "100-Year-Old Man" keeps the tone light. It is a comedy, after all. The laugh-o-meter needle hovers fairly consistently on "amused grin." Read full review
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The DissolveCharles BramescoMay 5, 2015
100-Year-Old sometimes feels like a rote biopic of a famous figure who never was, congratulating viewers on whatever recognition has rolled over from grade-school history class, then moving on to what comes next. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeLoren KingJun 25, 2015
The 100-Year-Old Man may appeal to viewers who like the madcap and the whimsical, no matter how self-conscious. Me, I’ll take Max von Sydow’s moroseness any day. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiJun 3, 2015
It is all very fanciful and droll, a mildly subversive and ramshackle Scandinavian version of the "Grumpy Old Men" on-the-road formula. Read full review
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Washington PostAnn HornadayMay 21, 2015
Whimsical, fantastical and self-consciously charming, it slinks around viewers’ ankles like an affectionate cat, purring ever more loudly until the audience can’t help but succumb. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMay 17, 2015
Perhaps most of the humor just doesn’t translate (the film was a smash hit in Sweden). Whatever the case, the script needed to mine more comedy from the characters, not the clownish plot machinations. Read full review
50
Village VoiceMichael NordineMay 5, 2015
The 100-Year-Old Man's equal-opportunity irreverence doesn't often translate to cleverness. Read full review
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