Vanilla Sky
Paramount Pictures | Release Date: December 14, 2001 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
45
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 33 Critic Reviews
Positive:
12
Mixed:
12
Negative:
9
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Critic Reviews

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83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
A mostly fascinating, often frustrating, boldly uncommercial Hollywood version of a boldly uncommercial art film. It's very atypical of the previous work of both director and star, and it's as personal a film, I suspect, as Cruise will ever make. Read full review
80
The New York TimesStephen Holden
Highly entertaining, erotic science-fiction thriller that takes Mr. Crowe into Steven Spielberg territory. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
It's a film that you can take home and chew over later, both abrasive in its loudness and reflective in its fleeting, feminine moments of silence. Well done. Read full review
75
Miami HeraldRene Rodriguez
An involving, sweetly touching love story, buoyed by Crowe's natural, poetic dialogue and his knack for writing characters (especially women) who feel like real people instead of plot devices. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
This is the kind of movie you don't want to analyze until you've seen it two times. Now that I've seen it twice, I think I understand it, or maybe not. Certainly it's entertaining as it rolls along. Read full review
70
VarietyTodd McCarthy
The picture has vitality, a fine cast and excellent craft Read full review
70
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Crowe's tantalizing film sticks with you. Read full review
63
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Visually dazzling but ultimately dizzying ride, a trippy suspenser that gets tripped up on its own deja vu voodoo. Read full review
63
USA TodayMike Clark
What works in a quirky foreign film can look silly with expansive Hollywood treatment. Crowe is smart enough to know this, so it's baffling he chose Vanilla over richer cinematic tastes. Read full review
63
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
I admire Cameron Crowe for daring to write and direct a movie as strange as Vanilla Sky. I lament the casting of Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz in the leads. Read full review
63
New York PostJonathan Foreman
Has moments that are eerily beautiful and genuinely moving -- and some that are surprisingly vulgar. Read full review
63
Chicago TribuneMark Caro
Crowe's chilliest movie. In part this is by design. Like "Open Your Eyes," to which Crowe is mostly faithful, Vanilla Sky is a head trip that merges thriller, romance and science-fiction elements while playing with our notions of dreams and reality. Read full review
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