The film is a snort-out-loud-funny master class of controlled chaos.Read Full Review »
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Boston Globe: Ty Burr
Among the most insane mainstream movies ever released.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
A lot of people are going to describe it as a waste of time, yet there's a likeability to the quirky characters that held my interest while tickling my funny bone.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
Best of all is Mark Wahlberg as Tommy, an angry post-9/11 firefighter so against Big Oil that he rides to fire scenes on his bike.Read Full Review »
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LOS ANGELES TIMES: Carina Chocano
The movie is undeniably weird, though it's hardly what you'd call "experimental." My hunch is that whether you love it or reject it as obtuse, incoherent or self-involved will be a generational thing.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Teresa Wiltz
With razor-sharp performances, zingy one-liners, broad slapstick humor and a message of sorts, there's enough to distract the viewer from becoming hopelessly lost in the lint-filled chaos that is the umbilicus.Read Full Review »
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Village Voice: J. Hoberman
There's more than a bit of Charlie Kaufman to the heady premise, although the scenario doesn't double back on itself--except perhaps in the joke of having Schwartzman's actual mother, Talia Shire, play his mother on-screen.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
What emerges is part screwball comedy, absurdist farce, social satire and earnest self-exploration. If it had the unwavering focus and clear-eyed vision of Russell's previous two features, I Heart Huckabees might have been brilliant.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Feels weirdly impersonal; very little love, or even true thought, shows up on the screen.Read Full Review »
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