Welcome To Marwen
Universal Pictures | Release Date: December 21, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
40
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Mixed or average reviews based on 38 Critic Reviews
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8
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17
Negative:
13
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38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyDec 21, 2018
As for those special effects, they are vivid, colorful, convincing. They aren’t quite so good that you don’t notice the WWII fantasy scenarios enacted therein are clichéd constructions reenacted in high heels. Read full review
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The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Barry HertzDec 20, 2018
Welcome to Marwen is the ultimate Robert Zemeckis movie. This is not intended as a compliment. The film – not quite comedy, not quite drama, but definitely indigestible – finds Zemeckis embracing his worst late-career indulgences. Read full review
38
The Associated PressLindsey BahrDec 20, 2018
This is a complex man and artist worthy of a complex story, not a would-be-feel-good farce. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineGreg CwikDec 19, 2018
The whole endeavor feels like a disservice to Mark Hogancamp’s story, in no small part because no one in the film feels human, even outside doll form. Read full review
38
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 19, 2018
Welcome to Marwen is a misjudgment only a first-rate filmmaker could make. Read full review
33
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Dec 20, 2018
It’s the weirdest film of his (Zemeckis) career. One of the worst, too. Read full review
30
VoxEmily VanDerWerffDec 20, 2018
Welcome to Marwen is a disastrously misconceived movie, but in such a boring way that it’s hard to imagine its target audience. Most of the time, big-screen disasters are hugely ambitious tales that completely miss the mark. This one hits the mark, but it’s probably not a target anybody should have been aiming at. Read full review
30
SlateSam AdamsDec 19, 2018
Welcome to Marwen is a tragedy, not because of how Mark’s story ends, but because it’s the work of a filmmaker who’s never been more sure of his craft, and never less connected to anything resembling actual human experience. The movie’s underlying theme is that fantasy is an escape from the real world that can help people return to it, but it doesn’t seem like Zemeckis is ever coming back. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonDec 19, 2018
Welcome to Marwen does not work as a drama of addiction, and frankly it doesn’t work as a celebration of Hogancamp’s creations, which work best as stunning still-photo images. Read full review
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Boston GlobeTy BurrDec 19, 2018
The tone is almost willfully off-putting. The parts that are supposed to be cute could give you the creeps. The film is almost a Platonic ideal of how to take an emotionally transfixing real-life story and get it wrong. Read full review
25
IGNMatthew DoughertyDec 19, 2018
Director Robert Zemeckis hits a new artistic low with Welcome to Marwen, a film that mistakes schmaltz for substance and employs downright boring novelty animation in a hackneyed attempt to stir the emotions. Read full review
16
The PlaylistRodrigo PerezJan 3, 2019
Based on the story of a man beaten so mercilessly he had to construct a fantasy world in order to survive his great pain and suffering, Robert Zemeckis’ insipid Welcome To Marwen is a painfully schmaltzy misjudged disaster, and superficial retelling that dishonors a layered and agonizing story about trauma. Read full review
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Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternDec 20, 2018
The results are mind-numbingly immense, joylessly violent and utterly lifeless. Read full review
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