The Incredible Burt Wonderstone
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: March 15, 2013 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
44
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Mixed or average reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
21
Negative:
7
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38
New York PostLou LumenickMar 14, 2013
Steve Carell is fatally miscast as an arrogant, flamboyant third-rate magician in The Incredible Burt Wonderstone, which by all rights should have been a second-rate Will Ferrell vehicle. Read full review
38
Rolling StonePeter TraversMar 14, 2013
Magicians have been pulling rabbits out of hats for ages. And yet, with all this talent, no one can make a decent script materialize. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMar 14, 2013
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone serves as a reminder that everything in a film has a chance to go wrong before a film begins filming. In other words: It's the script, stupid. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChris Cabin Mar 13, 2013
The film is overtly suspicious and critical of the new and only serviceably romantic about the old. Read full review
20
Time OutDavid FearMar 12, 2013
No matter; this aggressively humorless farce would play like a dead rabbit pulled out of a hat, regardless of the casting choices. Read full review
10
Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternMar 14, 2013
Alan Arkin does the best trick, bringing a dollop of humanity to the role of Rance Holloway, the magician who was young Burt's inspiration. Apart from Rance, the whole production is slovenly nonsense, photographed on the cheap with blaring ghastliness. Yet it poses an intriguing mystery. Did the producers appeal to a denominator even lower than common by making their film as dumb as possible, or did it just turn out that way? Read full review
0
The PlaylistDrew TaylorMar 10, 2013
It's a comedy so out of touch that jokes disappear before they're even delivered, as if by magic. Read full review
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