The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

This film's manifold pleasures come in a series of small packages, with treats inside as tasty as they are unexpected.Read Full Review »

A curious case indeed: an extravagantly ambitious movie that's easy to admire but a challenge to love.Read Full Review »

Lyrical, original, misshapen and deeply felt, this is one flawed beauty of a movie.Read Full Review »

There's no denying the film's power of compulsion and the sense that, when it's all over, it means something. Most viewers will be entertained and moved, and some will find their intellect aroused.Read Full Review »

Above all, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a triumph of technique.Read Full Review »

Worth seeing just for the superb prosthetic makeup and seamless computer-generated effects in which Pitt's head is digitally imposed onto older bodies.Read Full Review »

Question: Is life still like a box of chocolates if you're going in reverse? The answer, in the case of the curiously Gumpian The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, is a gooey yes.Read Full Review »

What Button shows is that Ben is ultimately not the hero of his own life or his own movie. He gets inside our head, that's for sure, but, frustratingly, we never get inside his.Read Full Review »

The movie's premise devalues any relationship, makes futile any friendship or romance, and spits, not into the face of destiny, but backward into the maw of time. It even undermines the charm of compound interest.Read Full Review »

At its most profound, Benjamin Button isn't about anything more important than Pitt's very handsomeness, which, for a surprising stretch of time, is a wonderful subject for study.Read Full Review »