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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 10
  3. Negative: 3 out of 10
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  1. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Ken Fox
    88
    Three Belgian clowns wrote and directed this sly, winsome tale of one woman's quest for her destiny in the polar seas after an absurd but life-altering accident reveals the emptiness of her mundane, middle-class life.
  2. Portland Oregonian
    Reviewed by: Marc Mohan
    83
    The Belgian comedy The Iceberg might be a pale shadow of the films of the great French comedian Jacques Tati, but even that's enough to qualify it as an amusing, inventive effort.
  3. Miami Herald
    Reviewed by: Marta Barber
    75
    The Iceberg is a riot, a quintessential French comedy with an improbable plot and an unbelievable cast of characters.
  4. New York Post
    Reviewed by: V.A. Musetto
    75
    Gordon and Abel (who delivers one of the longest yawns in screen history) are howls as husband and wife. Their long, lean buddies seem custom-made for slapstick humor. Keaton would approve.
  5. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Noel Murray
    75
    The film is striking and often charming, and any movie that places three tall, lanky types aboard a miniature boat named "Titanique" can't be slammed too much. But in the end, it's easier to admire than to love.
  6. New York Magazine (Vulture)
    Reviewed by: David Edelstein
    70
    Not every sight gag works, and there's a brief stretch in the middle where the action becomes landlocked. But once we're out to sea the movie goes swimmingly--its three protagonists fighting, flailing, and often on the verge of drowning as their tiny skiff surges toward the land of the Inuit.
  7. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Matt Zoller Seitz
    70
    Its simultaneously silly and grave tone finds humor in the characters' delusions and obsessions while celebrating their uniqueness.
  8. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jim Ridley
    30
    The result packs all the hilarity of a museum installation on The Semiotics of Silent Comedy.
  9. Variety
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Holland
    30
    A brave but doomed attempt to revive the art of pure physical comedy, the willfully eccentric, practically dialogue-free, Iceberg sets itself a high standard with an opening 15 minutes of the most delicious slapstick, but thereafter only a few moments of gentle surrealism and the occasional poetic image justify the ride, with only 10% of the pic's potential laughs evident above the surface.
  10. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Phil Hall
    10
    This one deserves to go back in the refrigerator – preferably to the very back of the refrigerator!
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