The Voices
Lionsgate | Release Date: February 6, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
58
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 24 Critic Reviews
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13
Mixed:
9
Negative:
2
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
90
Film.comEric D. SniderJan 22, 2014
Here is a pitch-black psycho-horror-comedy to restore one’s faith in the “What the eff did I just watch?” genre. Read full review
88
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperFeb 5, 2015
The Voices is a deeply warped, darkly funny and thoroughly depraved horror comedy... and whether you find this sort of thing walk-out-of-the-theater distasteful or wickedly subversive, I’m fairly confident we won’t see another movie like it for quite some time. Read full review
83
HitfixDaniel FienbergJan 26, 2015
Perhaps a little more successful when winking at genre expectations than when playing things straight, The Voices is funny, disturbing and whimsical. Read full review
80
CineVueBen NicholsonMar 19, 2015
Not only is The Voices uproariously funny throughout, but it's actually far cleverer than one might expect. Read full review
75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerFeb 19, 2015
Think of this stylish, quirky and quite grisly feature from Marjane Satrapi as a meeting of "Psycho," "Dexter" and "Dr. Doolittle." Read full review
75
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoFeb 6, 2015
I’ve always liked Reynolds for the most part, but he does his best work yet here in Satrapi’s odd, pitch-black comedy about a man who talks to his dog and cat. And they talk back. Read full review
75
USA TodayClaudia PuigFeb 5, 2015
The quirky film is simultaneously bizarre, humorous, disturbing and suspenseful. Read full review
75
New York PostSara StewartFeb 4, 2015
Ryan Reynolds is chillingly perfect as a nice-guy factory worker struggling with schizophrenia and murderous impulses in this tonally wild indie, which is nearly too horrifying to be funny — but not quite. Read full review
75
ObserverRex ReedFeb 4, 2015
It’s a tormented Tony Perkins at the Bates Motel, re-imagined by "Saturday Night Live," with all the risks implied. Read full review
75
The PlaylistJames RocchiJan 26, 2015
It’s a bit of an irony that The Voices doesn’t have much to say, but the fact of the matter is that it’s the tone and the tenor of the film that make it most watchable; a truly hilarious film about truly horrible things, the real artistry in Satrapi’s direction of The Voices speaks for itself. Read full review
70
The DissolveTasha RobinsonFeb 5, 2015
It’s a ready-made cult movie, complicated and weird and grotesque and distinctly silly, and best when not taken remotely seriously. Read full review
70
Village VoiceAmy NicholsonFeb 3, 2015
The Voices is a perfect film that's hard to watch. Read full review
70
The Hollywood ReporterBoyd van HoeijJan 26, 2015
The film’s combination of psychological drama -- cue the childhood trauma -- with blood-splattered limb-cutting, talking heads in the fridge and talking pets on the couch is a risky one that finally works because Perry and Satrapi find the right tonal mixture for the material. Read full review
60
The TelegraphTim RobeyMar 19, 2015
For all its flashes of ingenuity, The Voices is secretly more scared than scary, lacking the truly disturbing ambition to get real. Read full review
60
Time Out LondonDavid EhrlichMar 17, 2015
Directed by cartoonist-turned-filmmaker Marjane Satrapi (‘Persepolis’), ‘The Voices’ steamrolls over boundaries between genres and giddily ignores the limits of good taste. Read full review
60
EmpireNick de SemlyenMar 16, 2015
Full-force performance form Ryan Reynolds but not as funny as it hopes it is. Read full review
60
Total FilmKevin HarleyMar 16, 2015
Reynolds moves on from Green Lantern in Satrapi’s psycho-romp, pitched awkwardly between funny-haha and funny-peculiar, but blessed with enough style and smarts to merit a look. Read full review
60
The GuardianXan BrooksJan 26, 2015
Satrapi's disreputable little creepshow finally doesn't amount to a hill of beans. Maybe that's fine. The Voices provides an enjoyably trashy antidote to the traditional Sundance fare of soulful drama and crusading documentary. Read full review
60
VarietyPeter DebrugeJan 26, 2015
In tapping Satrapi to interpret this project, the producers have done about as well as one could expect with such material. Still, a bit more consistency in style would have gone a long way. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Feb 4, 2015
Satrapi makes some bad calls in her attempts to balance bleak humor with bleaker thrills, including ending the film on a glibly cheerful note. Her best decision, bar none, was entrusting such heavy material to the guy who played Van Wilder. Behind that perpetual smirk lurks a talent for quiet depravity. Bonkers looks good on him. Read full review
40
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriFeb 6, 2015
This film really doesn’t know what to do with itself, except to show us the difference between Jerry’s happy world and his dark world as if it’s some kind of revelation; it’s the one move the film has, and it does it over and over again. Read full review
40
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleFeb 5, 2015
The big question here is why any of The Voices, as crisply made and stylish as it is, should matter or entertain. The cold truth is that it doesn't. Read full review
30
The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 5, 2015
Grisly but not especially suspenseful, tongue-in-cheek without any real wit, The Voices aims to hit the intersection of horror and comedy but tumbles into an uncanny valley of tedious creepiness. Read full review
12
Slant MagazineChuck BowenJan 31, 2015
For most of the film's running time, one mistakes the main character's callousness for the filmmakers'. Read full review
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