Human Nature Critic Reviews

Metascore®:

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Based upon 12 Critic Reviews
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Boston Globe | Renee GrahamAdd Critic to Favorites

It's just weirdness for the sake of weirdness, and where ''Human Nature'' should be ingratiating, it's just grating.Read the full review

Chicago Sun-Times | Roger EbertAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie has nowhere much to go and nothing much to prove, except that Stephen King is correct and if you can devise the right characters and the right situation, the plot will take care of itself -- or not, as the case may be.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Owen GleibermanAdd Critic to Favorites

The movie is too cute to take itself too seriously, but it still feels like it was made by some very stoned college students.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | John AndersonAdd Critic to Favorites

A goofball movie, in the way "Malkovich" was, but it tries too hard.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalleAdd Critic to Favorites

The result is a satisfying and original picture.Read the full review

Slate | David EdelsteinAdd Critic to Favorites

The characters are much less finely tuned and the climax is a botch, but the French-financed film is often a riot, and the sensibility is all there.Read the full review

The New York Times | Dana StevensAdd Critic to Favorites

Should have been more polished, and less tame.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith PhippsAdd Critic to Favorites

Nature lacks a little of Malkovich's freshness, but that's just about all it lacks.Read the full review

Variety | Todd McCarthyAdd Critic to Favorites

Charlie Kaufman's clever screenplay bears many traces of the same brand of originality and eccentric imagination that graced his work on "Being John Malkovich," although even at an hour-and-a-half the conceit is stretched almost too thin for audience sustenance.Read the full review

Wall Street Journal | Joe MorgensternAdd Critic to Favorites

A hoot, or at least a collection of delightful hootlets hung on a short, frayed line.Read the full review

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