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21 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100Village VoiceVillage VoiceAn essay on storytelling and spectatorship within When Inanimate Objects Attack schlock - one infused with the haunting aura and disillusionment of a post–"Easy Rider" road movie - Rubber is some kind of miracle.
- 80The New York TimesManohla DargisThe New York TimesManohla DargisWhile it can be seen as an environmental horror movie (if you must), Rubber doesn't dig down but instead merrily rolls on, as Mr. Dupieux plays with narrative and form. In one wonderful cinematic coup the tire spots a crow and shifts toward the bird so that it's framed in the tire hole, an angle that turns the tire into a camera. Point. Click. Explode.
- 67Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovIt is, in effect, a movie-house meta mirror, warped and weird, strange but true (except when it isn't). It's whatever you want it to be, which doesn't necessarily make it a great movie (although it contains moments of greatness), but it IS – by virtue of its premise alone – boldly unique.
- 60Boxoffice MagazineMark KeizerBoxoffice MagazineMark KeizerWhere Rubber veers off the road is that for all its giggly moments and meta-whatever, it's never quite funny enough or scary enough.
- 50The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasWhile it's admirably perverse for a "killer-tire movie" to be this snooty, it's about half as clever as it thinks it is.
- With a homicidal tire as the main character, the film isn't scary enough to qualify as horror and not nearly as amusing as a black comedy should be.
- 40VarietyLeslie FelperinVarietyLeslie FelperinNeither scary, funny, nor anywhere near as clever as it seems to think it is, picture offers audiences few reasons to want to see it beyond its one-joke premise.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfTo the movie's small credit, there's very little grasping for larger significance: It's a dumb horror film, complete with a sexy female lust object (Kaboom's Mesquida) undraping for a shower scene.
- 25MovielineStephanie ZacharekMovielineStephanie ZacharekRubber could have been a modest horror novelty, a wicked, malevolent version of "The Red Balloon."