The Mysteries of Pittsburgh Critic Reviews

In the film's most flamboyant role, Peter Sarsgaard's devil-ish charisma and cold bluster is frightening.Read the full review

The full warmth and idiosyncrasy of Chabon's original is missed in an adaptation that feels more impersonally observed. But Lawson's pic, (with the director making a left turn from prior feature "Dodgeball," which he says was a money gig undertaken to hasten this dream project) is entertaining and involving enough on its own terms.Read the full review

Pleasant-to-watch, easily forgotten drama.Read the full review

The movie is all the more artificial because it has been made with great, almost painful, earnestness.Read the full review

Earnest but unconvincing film.Read the full review

Only Sarsgaard shows a pulse, creating a self-destructive, omnisexual rogue who, for all his faults, would probably be great company. The same can't be said for the film around him.Read the full review

Almost nothing works in this movie.Read the full review

A clumsy and confused adaptation of Michael Chabon's 1988 novel.Read the full review