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Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an epic fantasy tale with rich storytelling backed by fantastic performances.
All Critics (247) | Top Critics (51) | DVD (19)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an anodyne Hollywood film that offers a safe and sanitised view of life and death. It's Forrest Gump goes backwards. Feb 12, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is an anodyne Hollywood film that offers a safe and sanitised view of life and death. It's Forrest Gump goes backwards.
Cosmo Landesman
Remove "curious" from the title and replace it with "twee and pointless", and you're close to it. What a incredible shaggy-puppy of a movie, a cobweb-construction patched together with CGI, prosthetics, gibberish and warm tears. Feb 6, 2009 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review…
Remove "curious" from the title and replace it with "twee and pointless", and you're close to it. What a incredible shaggy-puppy of a movie, a cobweb-construction patched together with CGI, prosthetics, gibberish and warm tears.
Peter Bradshaw
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button shows that whether we live life forwards or backwards, the outside is just a shell and it's what we choose to do with life that sifts out the best parts from the worst. Feb 6, 2009 | Rating: 4/5
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button shows that whether we live life forwards or backwards, the outside is just a shell and it's what we choose to do with life that sifts out the best parts from the worst.
Monisha Rajesh
An epic, melancholic romance that employs a multi-generational cast and groundbreaking visual effects. It's a testament to Fincher's skill as a storyteller that the film actually works, albeit sporadically. Feb 5, 2009 | Rating: 4/6 | Full Review…
An epic, melancholic romance that employs a multi-generational cast and groundbreaking visual effects. It's a testament to Fincher's skill as a storyteller that the film actually works, albeit sporadically.
Tom Huddlestone
It is a tedious marathon of smoke and mirrors. In terms of the basic requirements of three-reel drama the film lacks substance, credibility, a decent script and characters you might actually care for. Feb 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5 | Full Review…
It is a tedious marathon of smoke and mirrors. In terms of the basic requirements of three-reel drama the film lacks substance, credibility, a decent script and characters you might actually care for.
James Christopher
An intended tour de force, it is strangely unable to engage the emotions. In the end it amounts to an overweight movie that delivers less than its clever director, David Fincher, seems to think. Feb 5, 2009 | Rating: 2/5
An intended tour de force, it is strangely unable to engage the emotions. In the end it amounts to an overweight movie that delivers less than its clever director, David Fincher, seems to think.
Derek Malcolm
Fincher is a master of establishing atmosphere, and the film has a dark, fable-like quality that is nearly intoxicating. Jun 6, 2019 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review…
Fincher is a master of establishing atmosphere, and the film has a dark, fable-like quality that is nearly intoxicating.
Matthew Lucas
Plodding, facile and fails to connect. Jan 31, 2019 | Rating: 2/4 | Full Review…
Plodding, facile and fails to connect.
Namrata Joshi
Benjamin Button is certainly interesting visually - but as Forrest's mom will tell you, it's what's inside the box that counts. Dec 11, 2018 | Rating: 3/4 | Full Review…
Benjamin Button is certainly interesting visually - but as Forrest's mom will tell you, it's what's inside the box that counts.
Kelly Jane Torrance
I'd like to report that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button represents the end of an era, one of those turning-points when American movies just have to change because they can't get any worse. Oct 31, 2018 | Full Review…
I'd like to report that The Curious Case of Benjamin Button represents the end of an era, one of those turning-points when American movies just have to change because they can't get any worse.
Eileen Jones
Throughout, the film seems to lack the necessary ingredient to engage the audience with more than its superficial beauty. Oct 10, 2018 | Full Review…
Throughout, the film seems to lack the necessary ingredient to engage the audience with more than its superficial beauty.
Megan Basham
It could have worked, had it ever snapped to life, but it doesn't. It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on. And on. You may even shake your watch to check it is still going. I know I did. Aug 29, 2018 | Full Review…
It could have worked, had it ever snapped to life, but it doesn't. It just goes on and on and on and on and on and on. And on. You may even shake your watch to check it is still going. I know I did.
Deborah Ross
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