Stranger Than Fiction
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: November 10, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
67
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Generally favorable reviews based on 35 Critic Reviews
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29
Mixed:
5
Negative:
1
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50
Village VoiceJim Ridley
Stranger Than Fiction merely layers whimsy upon whimsy. As written, Harold Crick is no more convincing a human being than he is an IRS agent; Kay Eiffel's writing, supposedly good enough to inspire the career-long devotion of a literature professor (Dustin Hoffman), sounds as dully declamatory as movie-trailer narration. Read full review
50
Washington PostDesson Thomson
There's a problem: This romance isn't developed enough to be truly satisfying -- it's fat-free SnackWell's when you want Godiva. It's not the original story we signed up for -- or thought we did. Read full review
50
SlateDana Stevens
Seems to suffer from low self-esteem. Why can't this movie see that it doesn't need a hulking meta-narrative apparatus to make us care about its story? It had us at hello--or would have, if not for the excess of high-concept trickery. Read full review
50
SalonStephanie Zacharek
The picture is an overworked trifle: There's so much going on in it that it becomes hard to care about ANYTHING that's going on in it. The story in Stranger Than Fiction is stranger than fiction. But what good is it if it's unreadable? Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The bad news is that Ferrell's modestly likable performance is the ONLY good thing about this misguided comedy that's so tiresomely written, badly acted by a stellar cast and ploddingly directed (by art-house whiz Marc Forster) that it just never quite gets off the ground. Read full review
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