The Men Who Stare at Goats Critic Reviews

A superbly written loony-tunes satire, played by a tony cast at the top of its game.Read the full review

All of the actors play without winks and spins, unless you consider Lebowskism itself a wink and spin.Read the full review

The go-for-broke performances help make all this paranormal activity too much fun to care.Read the full review

The film is more than a little odd but it has fun with its offbeat premise and moves along breezily until it gets bogged down in the third act.Read the full review

Even if The Men Who Stare at Goats is not worth comparing to "Dr. Strangelove," it should satisfy audiences with its great cast and patent absurdities, coated in quaint nostalgia for the happy hippie days of yore.Read the full review

Still worth watching because it provides a showcase for a group of actors who really appreciate this kind of farcical comedy.Read the full review

Likable, lightweight, absurdist comedy.Read the full review

This is a movie about a “New Earth Army” full of misfit soldiers yearning for a chance to be non-conformists with a cause, which means it’s already two-thirds of the way to being awesome. Had Heslov eased back a bit, Goats might’ve made it the rest of the way.Read the full review

Content to be sparkly when it should be sharp-edged and shrewd; it has the potential to roar like a lion, but instead it lays lambs at our feet.Read the full review