Running With Scissors Critic Reviews

There's grace here if the movie were willing to dig for it. Occasionally it does.Read the full review

Watching Running With Scissors the movie instead of reading Running With Scissors the best-selling memoir by Augusten Burroughs is like running with a spatula, or maybe some weird toast tongs.Read the full review

Murphy, who created the creepy, funny, lunatic "Nip/Tuck," is a master of mordant and macabre camp. But here he loses his teeth, seeming to lack any ironic distance from material that practically begs for it.Read the full review

Too much manic energy runs the movie off the rails.Read the full review

A wildly erratic, often annoying but never boring endeavor.Read the full review

By turns cruel, self-pitying, and mordantly witty, Bening makes living with a delusional psychotic seem like the adventure of a lifetime.Read the full review

Too outlandish to be fully convincing, this adaptation of the best-selling memoir sacrifices subtlety for broad laughs.Read the full review

Ms. Bening's precise, pitiless tracing of her character's decline from feisty defiance to pathetic, overmedicated self-delusion gives the film an emotional weight it might not otherwise have.Read the full review

The surreality is distancing, but authentic, believable performances and a low-key affect keep Running From Scissors from turning shrill.Read the full review