The Darjeeling Limited
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: September 29, 2007 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
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Generally favorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
26
Mixed:
7
Negative:
2
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60
TimeRichard Corliss
Picaresque movies often feel longer than they are. For them to work, they need an interior spring with more thrust than Darjeeling's attempt at reconstituted brotherhood. The problem is in Anderson's approach, which is so supercool, it's chilly. Anderson has the attitude for comedy but not the aptitude. Read full review
58
Baltimore SunMichael Sragow
Anderson creates a deluxe train set, for sure. All he neglects is building up an electric current or a head of steam. Read full review
50
New York Magazine (Vulture)David Edelstein
Hit and miss, but its tone of lyric melancholy is remarkably sustained. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Wilson, Brody and Schwartzman have their charms, but the script gives them little to work with. Anderson and his co-writers have come up with an ordinary road movie. Read full review
50
SlateDana Stevens
The Darjeeling Limited (Fox Searchlight) struggles to open out from the beautiful, stifling world inside Anderson's head. But like in his last movie, The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou, Anderson makes the mistake of keeping its protagonists trapped for too long aboard a means of conveyance. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The trouble with this precious fable isn't that the Whitmans are self-absorbed ninnies: It's that they aren't characters at all. Read full review
50
Film ThreatMark Bell
The Darjeeling Limited isn't so bad as to offend those who love Wes Anderson too much, but it is not the triumph that his previous films have been. Read full review
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