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The Observer - Philip French | Screenrush Barometer:  |
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'beautifully played' |
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Time Out - Dave Calhoun | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'It's a deliriously imperfect film ? and all the better for it.' |
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Empire - Dan Jolin | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'Intelligent and uncompromising, with knock-out performances from Downey Jr. and Foxx .' |
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Time - Mary Pols | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'A deeply empathetic exploration of mental illness and a winning showcase for the talents of its two stars, Robert Downey Jr. and Jamie Foxx.' |
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Premiere US - Rob Calvert | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The performances are every bit as good as you would expect, and the story is powerful and inspiring.' |
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New Yorker - David Denby | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'I don't know if Beethoven and a sympathetic newspaper reporter can redeem a messy American city, but this movie makes a plausible case for so fervent a dream.' |
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The Financial Times - Martin Hoyle | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'the film suffers from uncertainty of tone. Joe Wright is a fluent, striking film-maker to the point of flashiness, and one keeps expecting - or fearing - a conventional feelgood conclusion. He brings gloss to the dross; a great feel for theatrical effects undermines the gritty truth.' |
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The Sun - The Sneak | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'This is a film that wears its bleeding heart on its sleeve.' |
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New York Times - Manohla Dargis | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'The film is imperfect, periodically if unsurprisingly sentimental, overly tidy and often very moving.' |
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Little White Lies - Lórien Haynes | Screenrush Barometer: |
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'You could watch Robert Downey Jr clean a toilet with a toothbrush for two hours and be fascinated. His personal history, combined with his on-screen chemistry, means that however much urine he ends up coated in ? and here there's both his own and a coyote's ? he can do little wrong. It's true again in The Soloist. It's only the film's contextualisation that periodically stinks.' |
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