Metacritic reviews

Consistently compelling without being truly memorable.

It's basically your above-average nice drug movie.

The real problem is that there's nothing to George but the movie's props.

Only Depp and Ray Liotta (as Jung's father) manage to animate this tired formula.

When George’s fortunes start to go from bad to worse, so does the movie.

A textbook case of a film that's befuddled by its subject.

Depp aside, the movie is higher on style than it is on substance.

Blew its chance to be an epic drug opera. It's only nostril-deep.

If any element takes us through the movie, it's him (Depp).

This is an extraordinary -- and unfathomable -- piece of whitewashing: a true snow job.