I Heart Huckabees Critic Reviews
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The film is a snort-out-loud-funny master class of controlled chaos.Read the full review
Among the most insane mainstream movies ever released.Read the full review
One of the boldest, most audacious American movies of the last 25 years, a freewheeling cerebral carnival of energy and ideas, if not always coherence or cohesion.Read the full review
A risky, foolish, intelligent comedy.Read the full review
Best of all is Mark Wahlberg as Tommy, an angry post-9/11 firefighter so against Big Oil that he rides to fire scenes on his bike.Read the full review
A lot of people are going to describe it as a waste of time, yet there's a likeability to the quirky characters that held my interest while tickling my funny bone.Read the full review
Clever but distancing, this existential comedy bounces along on the backs of its tasty cast, witty writing and stylistic verve.Read the full review
With razor-sharp performances, zingy one-liners, broad slapstick humor and a message of sorts, there's enough to distract the viewer from becoming hopelessly lost in the lint-filled chaos that is the umbilicus.Read the full review
The movie is undeniably weird, though it's hardly what you'd call "experimental." My hunch is that whether you love it or reject it as obtuse, incoherent or self-involved will be a generational thing.Read the full review
What emerges is part screwball comedy, absurdist farce, social satire and earnest self-exploration. If it had the unwavering focus and clear-eyed vision of Russell's previous two features, I Heart Huckabees might have been brilliant.Read the full review
