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Signs & Wonders
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60 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 17 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 12 out of 17
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 17
  3. Negative: 2 out of 17
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  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    90
    Abounds in psychological suspense and plays like a mystery film, even though the mystery at hand may be purely one of the human heart.
  2. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    88
    Has extraordinary depth and insight about the limitations and follies of human beings.
  3. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Chuck Wilson
    80
    Beautifully acted film remains deeply intelligent and always fascinating.
  4. Chicago Sun-Times
    Reviewed by: Roger Ebert
    75
    As a drama about the ravages of mental illness, the movie works; too bad most of the critics read it only as a romantic soap opera in which the hero is an obsessive sap. They read the signs but miss the diagnosis.
  5. Christian Science Monitor
    Reviewed by: David Sterritt
    75
    Unusual and imaginative drama.
  6. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jami Bernard
    75
    The best performance is by Rampling. (The) camera hangs on her, knowing that nothing escapes those wise, sad-lidded eyes.
  7. Entertainment Weekly
    Reviewed by: Owen Gleiberman
    75
    Jonathan Nossiter's second feature (after the intricate and haunting ''Sunday'') strikes unnerving chords of mystery and dismay as it fuses the sinister, jump cut dislocations of a metaphysical thriller like ''Don't Look Now'' with a pain soaked meditation on love, guilt, marriage, and adultery.
  8. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Paula Nechak
    75
    Though Signs & Wonders loses its bubbles and runs flat in its anticlimactic final moments, it's far more inventive and demanding than any movie of recent memory.
  9. Mr. Showbiz
    Reviewed by: Kevin Maynard
    70
    Offers up keys and cakes and plunges its characters down a deep rabbit hole.
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  10. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    70
    Spare and coolly evocative, it's a chilling accomplishment.
  11. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Gregory Weinkauf
    70
    This is a sensitive, thinking person's movie with a lot on its mind.
  12. Philadelphia Inquirer
    Reviewed by: Steven Rea
    63
    Skarsgard's performance is bold and raw (and reminiscent of vintage Jack Lemmon in its earnestness).
  13. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    50
    Nossiter's premise is good, and he intrigues us with stylish conceits, but he makes a crucial casting error. Alec ought to be someone we care about.
  14. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Michael Atkinson
    50
    Pretension looms, and for many the web of symbolism will be too thick. But Rampling, to her credit, helps hold the nuthouse together.
  15. Film.com
    Reviewed by: Ernest Hardy
    40
    Less would have been more, and this film is sabotaged by its maker's unchecked pretension.
  16. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Foreman
    38
    Smug, often tedious, and comically crude.
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  17. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: A.O. Scott
    30
    Filled with voyeuristic shots as the camera peers through picket fences and windows and around corners; the film looks as if it were shot with a surveillance camera from a 7-Eleven
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