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K-PAX
Universal Pictures
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for a sequence of violent images, and brief language and sensuality
Starring
Kevin Spacey,
Jeff Bridges,
Mary McCormack,
Alfre Woodard,
and
Ajay Naidu
A psychiatrist (Bridges) is baffled by a mysterious patient (Spacey) at a mental hospital who claims to be from a distant planet called K-PAX.
| GENRE(S): |
Sci-fi
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Gene Brewer (novel)
Charles Leavitt
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Iain Softley
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 26, 2002
Video: March 26, 2002
Theatrical: October 26, 2001
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| RUNNING TIME: |
118 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
80
Salon.com
Charles Taylor
What keeps the movie going, besides Softley's intelligent direction and Mathieson's inventive cinematography, is the actors' duet between Spacey and Bridges.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
This is a tour-de-force performance, delivered by an actor at the top of his game, and it's a shame that K-Pax, instead of engaging our imaginations as it promises to, devolves into such a conventional, paint-by- numbers disappointment.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
The movie itself is not completely successful, but it's consistently both engrossing and entertaining, and -- once again -- Spacey's performance creates a spell that lingers long after the lights come back on.

75
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The heart of the movie is in the Spacey performance, and in knowing that less is more, he plays Prot absolutely matter-of-factly.

75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The images are lustrous, the cutting is brisk and the acting of the two leads is right on the money.

70
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Both actors are so good that one might easily overlook the Pollyannaish subplot.

70
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
When Kevin Spacey takes center stage, our planet really does seem bright.
70
Washington Post
Rita Kempley
Primarily, it's a warm, fuzzy and funny duet between Spacey and Bridges, one that brings to mind the interplay between Spock and Kirk.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Lisa Schwarzbaum
I rather like the whole mystic- crystal-revelations aspect of K-PAX, and the idea that even a psychiatrist of Jeff Bridges' handsome, American substantiality is open to notions of cosmic improbability.

63
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Both consoling and confounding.

63
Boston Globe
Jay Carr
It would be gratifying to report that there's a lot more to K-Pax than Spacey at the top of his form, but there isn't.
60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Entertaining for so long it's a downer to sit through the dumbed-down finale.

60
Mr. Showbiz
Cody Clark
Spacey and Bridges -- generally provide exactly the level of investment required for their characters to be convincing. Neither one showboats, and both make good use of the dry humor in Leavitt's script.
50
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
A pleasant enough entertainment raised above its station by the quality of its acting.

50
USA Today
Claudia Puig
As impressive as Kevin Spacey ordinarily is, this isn't the best vehicle for his considerable talents.

50
Miami Herald
Rene Rodriguez
It's all very "Cuckoo's Nest," but in a glib, facile way, and it leaves K-PAX adrift in its fuzzy, New-Agey orbit.

50
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
The casting in K-PAX is canny, but the picture as a whole is a clunky mix of the canny and the would-be uncanny.

50
Variety
Robert Koehler
Frustratingly fritters away what fascination it develops and bows to the basic conventions of a standard detective story mixed with the theme of a physician healing himself.

50
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Not worth the rocket fuel.

50
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
The biggest load of New Agey hogwash to grace the big screen since Spacey's "Pay it Forward."

40
New Times (L.A.)
Luke Y. Thompson
Isn't quite as offensive as it sounds, nor is it in any way rousing; Spacey and Bridges are watchable, but nothing more.

40
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
While nowhere near as mawkish at the abysmal "Pay It Forward," K-PAX nevertheless seems somehow unfocused and meandering; it's Spacey-light.

40
Film Threat
Michael Dequina
A two-time Oscar winner playing a crazy person in a big studio film released in late October. Can't you just smell the pretension? Probably not, given the other ways in which this film stinks.

40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
It's hard to watch these two actors plow through the nonsense of K- Pax without feeling that a terrific opportunity has been squandered.

40
Village Voice
Dennis Lim
K-PAX undertakes a garbled but comprehensive survey of Hollywood therapeutic clichés: The rain man has an awakening from his cocoon, pays it forward, turns into the fisher king.

30
New York Magazine
Peter Rainer
Spacey is turning into another Robin Williams: Between this film and "Pay It Forward" he cops the prize for the Sappiest Performances by an Actor Previously Known to Have Great Talent.

30
TV Guide
Frank Lovece
The latest offender in the odd "let's see what the cute and funny mentally ill can teach us" genre, this mystery/domestic drama commits all the usual sins and clichés.

30
Slate
David Edelstein
Much of K-Pax consists of Spacey grinning like Stevie Wonder behind sunglasses, -- taking dippy steps, and bobbing his head as if attached to an invisible Walkman.

30
LA Weekly
Ernest Hardy
Manipulative, feel-good drivel wrapped around a cloying performance by Kevin Spacey.

25
Portland Oregonian
Kim Morgan
Just pass on K-PAX.

25
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
In short, this movie is exactly the kind of starry-eyed escapist fantasy that Dr. Powell suspects Prot of having. It's harmless enough, since we can be cured just by leaving the theater.


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