Vanilla Sky Reviews

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A.S. Hamrah
n+1
November 29, 2018
Crowe's baby-boomer fantasy tinkles with notions like a jostled perfume counter.
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Felix Vasquez Jr.
Cinema Crazed
April 29, 2009
Two and a half hours I'll never get back...
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Mark Halverson
Sacramento News & Review
August 7, 2008
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Top Critic
David Ansen
Newsweek
March 31, 2008
The real mystery here is why a filmmaker as talented and unique as Crowe would want to devote several years of his life to recreating someone else's movie.
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James O'Ehley
Sci-Fi Movie Page
November 6, 2007
It just makes things easier to believe that good-looking rich folks are just as miserable and unhappy as the rest of us . . .
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Joe Lozito
Big Picture Big Sound
July 14, 2007
Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com
October 21, 2006
A classic case of what happens when a Hollywood studio and a star (Cruise) take a Spanish metaphysical thriller and turn it into a glossy, overproduced big-budget star vehicle that lacks distinct identity.
Full Review | Original Score: C
Gareth J. Von Kallenbach
Film Threat
December 6, 2005
My suggestion is to avoid this film and instead rent Open Your Eyes (Abre Los Ojos) the film upon which Vanilla Sky was based.
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Jeffrey Overstreet
Looking Closer
January 15, 2005
Vanilla Sky is a long, complex, ambitious thriller that doesn't quite work.
Original Score: C

Film Threat
January 12, 2004
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Brian Mckay
eFilmCritic.com
March 19, 2003
These Skies are not only Vanilla, but a bit too familiar . . . Tom Cruise once again plays himself playing a character
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5

Film Threat
December 8, 2002
Full Review | Original Score: 2/5
Brent Simon
Entertainment Today
September 23, 2002
An interesting failure... in a perverse way, while Vanilla Sky certainly doesn't stand up to Crowe's still-fresh masterwork Almost Famous, it does confirm his directorial prowess.
Full Review | Original Score: D+
Mark Palermo
The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
September 1, 2002
Its biggest misstep is the talky, explanatory conclusion, which leaves attentive viewers with little to chew on.
Gina Carbone
Seacoast Newspapers (NH/Maine)
August 10, 2002
Maybe something this surreal needs unknowns to keep it in the ether.
Original Score: 2.5/4
Jeffrey Chen
Window to the Movies
July 12, 2002
The ending is anti-climactic not only because the explanation leaves no stone unturned but also because the explanation itself is unsatisfactory.
Full Review | Original Score: 6/10
Jason Clark
Matinee Magazine
June 14, 2002
There is a certain fascination involved when A-listers go this wrong on a picture, and as a result, the movie becomes a perverse thrill
Full Review | Original Score: C
Jimmy O
Film Snobs
June 10, 2002
[Vanilla Sky] results...[in] a bittersweet outside with a soft and caramel center.
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Betty Jo Tucker
ReelTalk Movie Reviews
June 5, 2002
This jumbled mess drove me to therapy.
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Sean Burns
Philadelphia Weekly
June 4, 2002
It makes you wonder where 'a cover' ends and karaoke begins.
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