It's Kind of a Funny Story Reviews
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Galifianakis [is] able to turn on a dime; balancing his disarming humour with moments of anguished outbreaks. His is one of the best supporting performances of recent memory; equally funny and heartbreaking. If only I could say the same of the movie.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Digital Spy
For all its problems, though, the film is easy-going, frequently channels into a sweet-natured tone and is able to raise a few chuckles.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Movies.com
It may not be One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, but it's also not Patch Adams.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Film Fix
...runs out of steam about half way through but with a likable cast and an interesting setup you'll want to finish what you started.
What Culture
It's also a kind of two-dimensional romance, a kind of flippant look at life on a mental ward, and (...) kind of made me want to give Zach Galifianakis a hug.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
Top CriticIt's Kind of a Funny Story lacks substance, but after you've spent a short time in this ward, you have to agree with Craig: These crazies aren't so bad.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
Las Vegas CityLife
The film's central element -- its sensitive exploration of a young teen's emotional confusion -- creates strong audience empathy, however, and gives Fleck and Boden a fertile focus for their signature light-hearted humanist storytelling.
Total Film
Wavering between affecting dramedy and goofy asylum- com, this is an enjoyable but superficial placebo that soft-soaps the realities of psychological disorder.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Scotsman
[A] flimsy, box-ticking quirk fest.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Daily Telegraph
As a self-help sitcom, it feels both glib and icky. Glicky?
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| Original Score: 2/5
Birmingham Post
In the end, like the instantly-forgettable title, it's kind of neither one thing nor the other and certainly no match for the likes of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest or even Girl, Interrupted.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Film4
Boden and Fleck expertly negotiate the fine line between sunny optimism and deepest despair, as Craig's emergence into a renewed love for life is offset by the rather different kind of departure that is delicately hinted for another main character.
Daily Mirror [UK]
This boy doesn't need therapy or happy pills but a large slap round the chops.
Guardian [UK]
No it's not. It's kind of a rubbish story.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Little White Lies
As disposable as a paper cup and, for such promising directors, a serious regression.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Radio Times
It's a fine teen film - and how often do you see those words in the same sentence?
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| Original Score: 4/5
IFC.com
I'm pretty sure if I'd seen this movie when I was 17, I would have loved it.
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| Original Score: B-
Fan The Fire
In the end, the title of the film contains an irony that may be lost on the filmmakers: this is kind of a funny story, no more, no less.
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| Original Score: 4/5
