| 80 |
Salon.com
What keeps the movie going, besides Softley's intelligent direction and Mathieson's inventive cinematography, is the actors' duet between Spacey and Bridges.
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| 75 |
San Francisco Chronicle
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.
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| 75 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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.
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| 75 |
Chicago Sun-Times
The heart of the movie is in the Spacey performance, and in knowing that less is more, he plays Prot absolutely matter-of-factly.
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| 75 |
Chicago Tribune
The images are lustrous, the cutting is brisk and the acting of the two leads is right on the money.
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| 70 |
Chicago Reader
Both actors are so good that one might easily overlook the Pollyannaish subplot.
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| 70 |
Wall Street Journal
When Kevin Spacey takes center stage, our planet really does seem bright.
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| 70 |
Washington Post
Primarily, it's a warm, fuzzy and funny duet between Spacey and Bridges, one that brings to mind the interplay between Spock and Kirk.
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| 67 |
Entertainment Weekly
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.
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| 63 |
Philadelphia Inquirer
Both consoling and confounding.
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| 63 |
Boston Globe
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.
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| 60 |
Washington Post
Entertaining for so long it's a downer to sit through the dumbed-down finale.
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| 60 |
Mr. Showbiz
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.
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| 50 |
Los Angeles Times
A pleasant enough entertainment raised above its station by the quality of its acting.
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| 50 |
USA Today
As impressive as Kevin Spacey ordinarily is, this isn't the best vehicle for his considerable talents.
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| 50 |
Miami Herald
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.
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| 50 |
Baltimore Sun
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.
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| 50 |
Variety
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.
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| 50 |
New York Daily News
Not worth the rocket fuel.
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| 50 |
New York Post
The biggest load of New Agey hogwash to grace the big screen since Spacey's "Pay it Forward."
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| 40 |
New Times (L.A.)
Isn't quite as offensive as it sounds, nor is it in any way rousing; Spacey and Bridges are watchable, but nothing more.
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| 40 |
Austin Chronicle
While nowhere near as mawkish at the abysmal "Pay It Forward," K-PAX nevertheless seems somehow unfocused and meandering; it's Spacey-light.
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| 40 |
Film Threat
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.
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| 40 |
The New York Times
It's hard to watch these two actors plow through the nonsense of K- Pax without feeling that a terrific opportunity has been squandered.
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| 40 |
Village Voice
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.
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| 30 |
New York Magazine
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.
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| 30 |
TV Guide
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.
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| 30 |
Slate
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.
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| 30 |
LA Weekly
Manipulative, feel-good drivel wrapped around a cloying performance by Kevin Spacey.
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| 25 |
Portland Oregonian
Just pass on K-PAX.
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| 25 |
Christian Science Monitor
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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