Cold Souls Critic Reviews

Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.Read the full review

Barthes takes her notion and runs with it, and Giamatti and Strathairn follow fearlessly.Read the full review

The low-key satire would have benefited from more of a back story to Giamatti's character and a clearer sense of his relationship with his wife. But what we do get is compelling in the way of an indelible, dreamy short story.Read the full review

You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.Read the full review

The movie turns what could have been a tedious meta-movie exercise into a sincere dour farce.Read the full review

The chief pleasure to be derived from watching Cold Souls is that it's a journey into the unexpected.Read the full review

Giamatti is aptly cast, playing his own persona with awkward anxiety and suitably skewed humor.Read the full review

If not always coherent, at least compelling.Read the full review

An amusing slice of existential whimsy with an Eastern European bent, Cold Souls posits a world in which humans can have their souls extracted and implanted in each others’ bodies.Read the full review