71
Metascore
46 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenIt's paved with delightfully irregular and unanticipated bits of business that stimulate the viewer to stay fully alert, while renewing our faith in the sheer joy of watching movies.
- 80The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenIt's a pinball arcade of a flick -- the Coens invent a bunch of wonderfully flaky characters, stick them into a Plexiglas narrative, and let them bounce off each other.
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertSome may complain The Big Lebowski rushes in all directions and never ends up anywhere. That isn't the film's flaw, but its style.
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittViewers with a taste for bizarre, even surreal, humor will have a ball.
- It's neither the clean strike Coen-heads expected after Fargo nor the gutter ball anticipated by Coen-phobes like myself.
- 70Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThe Big Lebowski is packed with show-offy filmmaking and as a result is pretty entertaining.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanNearly everything in The Big Lebowski is a put-on, but all that leaves you with is the Coens' bizarrely over-deliberate, almost Teutonic form of rib nudging.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannAlthough some of its parts are brilliantly executed and played by a terrific cast, the result is scattered, overamplified and unsatisfying.
- 50San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserSan Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserIt is a visual tour de force, but as a whole the movie slowly deflates into a cross between "Arizona" and "The Hudsucker Proxy".
- 30TV Guide MagazineKen FoxTV Guide MagazineKen FoxIf it's all supposed to be in fun, why does it feel so much like an insult?