21 Grams Reviews

Thought-provoking film not for tweens/young teens.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

A highly emotional, thought provoking drama that easily lives up to the hype, 21 Grams is a film that has all of its bases covered: script, acting and direction.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

"21 Grams" commands a running discourse that runs as a constant thematic thread through all of humanity. The movie delivers life as a floating mysterious entity that we all share. It's very few films that achieve anything remotely close.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Une oeuvre d'une rare intensité dramatique qui n'a aucunement besoin de suivre un cheminement narratif classique pour susciter une vive réaction chez le spectateur

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

The structure simply doesn't let any of the characters build an arc of growth or despair.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

The story never grabbed me, and the jumps in narrative time seemed arbitrary, soon becoming a distressing obstacle rather than a narrative lynchpin. Not as good as it wants to be.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

The performances, by and large, outweigh the film's unnecessary metaphorical gunk.

Full Review | Original Score: B

Quel est le poids de l'amour, de la vengeance et de la culpabilité? À vous de le découvrir.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

... a hurricane of melodrama and implausibly accelerating crises that seem orchestrated merely to turn up the intensity. ... At 125 minutes, [it] feels more like 240.

| Original Score: C

21 Grams thrashes wildly...exhorting us to feel something. Apart from the fleeting satisfaction of its structural parlor game, I felt little...save exhausted boredom.

| Original Score: 1/5

Absorbs you and dissects its tale of life, death, and re-birth with inventive force.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

21 Grams achieves its objectives and, despite its flaws, is thoroughly entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 82/100

21 Grams...is intelligent, well-written, and told with a unique style, and it features some of the best acting presently available.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

A bleak, rather obvious melodrama disguised by a tricksy, time-splicing structure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

its boldly atomised narrative, its labyrinthine circularity and its no-nonsense performances make 21 Grams... well worth the weight.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

[O]ne of those rare pure examples of the highest form of collaborative art ... It is as sweet and hurtful as life itself.

Full Review | Original Score: A+

Could stand to lose at least 21 minutes-the film implodes under the somber weight of its own pretentiousness

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Uno sabe que está ante un gran director cuando para conmovernos no hace falta más que un excelente grupo de actores, una cámara y una buena historia.

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A non-linear, emotionally escalating collage of three lives on a tragic collision course, the film is blessed with innovative storytelling and raw, stellar performances.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The movie becomes a mosaic of moments... the cinematic equal of Rubik's Cube

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4