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10 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Washington PostMichael O'SullivanWashington PostMichael O'SullivanVan Dormael has crafted a saga that, even at two-plus hours, is endlessly, enormously watchable.
- 83Portland OregonianMarc MohanPortland OregonianMarc Mohanvan Dormael’s vivid visual sense and genuine curiosity about the nature of love and life, time and death, make it well worth surrendering to his imagination for a while.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungVan Dormael's intriguing script is more than matched in his flamboyant direction of this 2-hour-plus tale, heroically edited by Matyas Veress and Susan Shipton into a fluid, generally understandable narrative.
- 75McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreWriter-director Jaco Van Dormael (“Toto the Hero”) spins flashbacks and time-lapse photography, stunning montages, whirling, circling cameras and stunning underwater, deep space and Martian landscape photography into a film that is as intentionally opaque as it is overlong.
- 75The A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergThe A.V. ClubBen KenigsbergAs philosophy, Mr. Nobody seems sillier than it is profound. But in a parallel reality, more movies would have this degree of insane ambition.
- 60VarietyBoyd van HoeijVarietyBoyd van HoeijThough a lot of it is well written and directed and, quite often, funny or poignant, the individual scenes rarely become part of a larger whole.
- 60The DissolveMike D'AngeloThe DissolveMike D'AngeloIn the end, Mr. Nobody’s title is simply too apt.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterAn ambitious, if uneven, experimental sci-fi romance that is less a thought-provoker than a dazzling juggling act.
- 38Slant MagazineChuck BowenSlant MagazineChuck BowenThe only truly graspable notion the film can be said to put forth is one of increasingly tedious sci-fi-romantic genre busy-ness.
- 25The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthMr. Nobody is simply a failure.