The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Critic Reviews

Superbly made and winningly acted by Brad Pitt in his most impressive outing to date.Read the full review

Benjamin Button is all of a visionary piece, and it's a soul-filling vision.Read the full review

A curious case indeed: an extravagantly ambitious movie that's easy to admire but a challenge to love.Read the full review

There's no denying the film's power of compulsion and the sense that, when it's all over, it means something. Most viewers will be entertained and moved, and some will find their intellect aroused.Read the full review

Above all, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is a triumph of technique.Read the full review

This odd, epic tale of a man who ages backwards is presented in an impeccable classical manner, every detail tended to with fastidious devotion.Read the full review

Worth seeing just for the superb prosthetic makeup and seamless computer-generated effects in which Pitt's head is digitally imposed onto older bodies.Read the full review

What Button shows is that Ben is ultimately not the hero of his own life or his own movie. He gets inside our head, that's for sure, but, frustratingly, we never get inside his.Read the full review

The movie's premise devalues any relationship, makes futile any friendship or romance, and spits, not into the face of destiny, but backward into the maw of time. It even undermines the charm of compound interest.Read the full review