The Intouchables
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: May 25, 2012 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
57
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 31 Critic Reviews
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16
Mixed:
12
Negative:
3
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
60
Chicago ReaderJ.R. JonesMay 31, 2012
A box office phenomenon in France, this crowd-pleasing drama is based on a true story but sticks closely to the template for a Hollywood buddy movie. Read full review
60
The New York TimesA.O. ScottMay 24, 2012
It is possible to summarize the experience of watching The Intouchables in nine words: You will laugh; you will cry; you will cringe. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesSheri LindenMay 24, 2012
In this sentimental feel-good saga of an ultra-wealthy quadriplegic and the petty criminal who becomes his caretaker, the chemistry between the two lead actors goes a considerable way toward elevating the broad-strokes culture clash. That's crucial to a film that is, in essence, a love story. Read full review
60
MovielineStephanie ZacharekMay 24, 2012
Actually, The Intouchables isn't bad - its merely shameless, but at least it's overtly so. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubSam AdamsMay 23, 2012
Sy and Cluzet give their parts more conviction than they deserve, even when the former is forced to re-enact the falsetto-singing-in-the-bubblebath bit from Pretty Woman. But even their energy can't revive a corpse this dead. Read full review
50
Washington PostMichael O'SullivanMay 31, 2012
The lens through which the The Intouchables was filmed may be too rose-colored for some people's taste, but the window that these talented performers throw open -- a window onto the strange and touching friendship between two very different men -- is crystal clear. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMay 31, 2012
Some of the elements in the film are inexplicable and some are undeveloped, but there are a handful of nicely crafted set pieces. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeWesley MorrisMay 31, 2012
This tired little movie got on my last nerve. If Driss is so charismatic and so full of ingenuity, why isn't he using any of that skill to help lift up his family? Read full review
50
NPRMark JenkinsMay 29, 2012
"Driving Miss Daisy" this ain't. Except that it sort of is. Read full review
50
New York PostFarran Smith NehmeMay 25, 2012
This essentially good-natured movie, a massive hit in France, is more likely to strike American audiences as trite than offensive. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterNeil YoungMay 23, 2012
Corny, calculating and commercial...Their slickly executed culture-clash character piece is stuffed chock full of hard-knock life lessons that owe much more to the conventions of the screen than the tough realities of social deprivation and of the severely handicapped. Read full review
40
Time OutKeith UhlichMay 22, 2012
Cluzet and Sy nonetheless make for ingratiating foils; the extended opening sequence in which the duo outwits a pair of cops like a hell-raising Laurel and Hardy could be a stellar short comedy if it weren't married to the deadly self-serious shtick that follows. Read full review
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