The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Reviews

One of the best half-movies of the year.

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Every decade gets its Forrest Gump. David Fincher's version of a little known (and monumentally depressing) F. Scott Fitzgerald story is this one's. That's either a damning condemnation or just what the doctor ordered.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

David Fincher's epic doesn't wallow in nihilistic obsessions, but preached no comforting homily about life's rich pageant either. Life is feel-good in spurts - a series of oddly interconnected, occasionally elating moments that accumulate before death.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

It's not an inherently flawed premise, but it is in writer Roth's saccharine-stained hands. It's frustrating, because it's easy to see how it could have been so much better.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.2/10

La premisa es un trozo puro de fantasía y una reflexión sobre el sentido de nuestras vidas%u2026 y creánme, dicha reflexión es tan sólo antesala de las muchas que contiene este filme.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.5/5

Sure, I cried at the end. I'm not a robot. But I cry at cat food commercials if they punch the right button. I just can't get on the Button train. I wish I could have obeyed my instincts and stayed home.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Brad Pitt spends a lifetime aging backward in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, and there are points in the movie where your tired hindquarters feel as if they've been along for every minute of his strange journey.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the total package, a deftly assembled fairy tale that unspools like a pleasant dream.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Who knew that F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story would end up on the screen as a three-hour Botox ad?

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Between the visuals and the Pitt factor, this is a movie your girlfriend will dig, but there's enough crazy fantasy stuff going on that I'd never call it a "chick flick."

Full Review | Original Score: A-

ostvarenje koje bi se komotno moglo nazvati Forrest Gump 2.0

Full Review | Original Score: 3/10

a slow starter, and it never really speeds up into a thrilling film, save for one scene of war on the ocean. However, it's not meant to be fast-paced or riveted with action.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Yes, Button can be glorious, but the Hollywood glamour drowns the soul that it so needs. Plus, there is the insistent reminder that we will all lose our looks and die.

Full Review | Original Score: C+

With fine acting all around, and Fincher's typically meticulous filmmaking engagingly, if coldly, transportive above and beyond Roth's mediocre script, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button bears examining. [Blu-ray]

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

... A beautiful, heartbreaking film ... packed with tender, loving performances and some of the most astounding visual effects we have ever seen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

an outsized romantic epic built on a potentially flimsy bit of fantastical whimsy that instead becomes an affecting allegory for the fleeting joys of life

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

The movie is gentle and sweet. Nothing more. Nothing less. And told most poetically.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

Fincher's fascination with, and film's illusory power over, time deepened the mystery of his previous film, Zodiac. Such insights also redeem Button from its cuteness and kitsch.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

It's a curious story indeed, a long and rambling exploration of time and what we make of it.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It is the cream of the crop in the categories of cinematography, editing, art direction, sound mixing, costume design, special visual effects, makeup and original musical score.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4