"Maybe" was watchable and blandly pleasant; "Theory" is a smidgen better than that, if not the cruelly funny farce the movie's best impulses and its own trailer would have you believe.Read Full Review »
Reynolds, called to 180 from anal nebbish to feral beast, is beautifully committed, but he gets no help on the other side of the camera.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Mark Olsen
Not exactly bad, but it disappointingly never really discovers the movie that it wants to be.Read Full Review »
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The New York Times: Laura Kern
A predictable romantic dramedy that isn’t particularly tender, moving or amusing, Chaos Theory suffers first and foremost from featuring the least engaging couple to headline a movie in some time.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
Chaos Theory stumbles from one contrived circumstance to the next, and there's not a moment in this entire mess that conveys any sort of genuine human emotion or reaction.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Desson Thomson
In Chaos Theory, Reynolds's performance is taut, crabby and tense. And his beard and glasses, which intensify those already narrow eyes, suggest a mad bomb-builder rather than a hapless soul with whom we can identify.Read Full Review »
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