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69 out of 100

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6.0 out of 10

Mixed or average reviews- based on 23 Ratings

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  • Starring: Dina Korzun, Emily Watson, Paul Giamatti
  • Summary: Is your soul weighing you down? Paul Giamatti has found a solution! In the surreal comedy Cold Souls, Paul Giamatti plays an actor named... Paul Giamatti. Stumbling upon an article in The New Yorker about a high-tech company that extracts, deep-freezes and stores people's souls, Paul very well might have found the key to happiness for which he's been searching. But, complications arise when he is the unfortunate victim of "soul-trafficking." Giamatti's journey takes him all the way to Russia in hopes of retrieving his stolen soul from an ambitious but talentless soap-opera actress. Balancing a tightrope between deadpan humor & pathos, and reality & fantasy, Cold Souls is a true soul searching comedy. (Samuel Goldwyn Films)… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 23 out of 28
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 28
  3. Negative: 0 out of 28
  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Whitney Borup
    100
    I love love love love loved Cold Souls. That might be because I love love love Paul Giamatti.
  2. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Lisa Schwarzbaum
    91
    Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Joe Neumaier
    60
    Giamatti is one of the few guys who could take a joke about a chickpea-sized soul and make a meal of it.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 12
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 12
  3. Negative: 2 out of 12
  1. pats123
    10
    Best movie I've seen all year. And I've seen tons... Strong performances, smart, very funny.
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  2. JohnnyDrake
    4
    This is normally my kind of movie, but i found Cold Souls to be neither funny nor intriguing. Basically a rehash of the expected other flicks without the inventiveness or surprises. I found myself thinking the next lines a second before they were spoken pretty consistently throughout the film. Good acting, though.… Expand
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  3. MarcDoyle
    2
    The critics missed this one in a big way. Not funny, not quirky, and flat-out boring. I love Paul G., but he's wasted in this film. Looks like "Being John Malkovich", but Cold Souls doesn't hold a candle to that masterpiece.… Expand
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