63
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16 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 83Portland OregonianBarry JohnsonPortland OregonianBarry JohnsonIts ambiguity allows us the chance to provide our own satirical edge to the film.
- 80VarietyDavid StrattonVarietyDavid StrattonA funny and original film set in a future when communications are even more refined than they are now.
- 75New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardYou'd think it would be boring to stare at Thomas's computer screen so intently for 97 minutes, but the movie is eerily riveting.
- 70L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyAlthough he's invisible, his poignant desire to overcome his isolation makes this film an interesting, frequently funny, and cautionary riff on our increasingly computer-bound society.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe movie, after a while, drifts into an all too literal parable of the limits of never leaving the house.
- 50Village VoiceJessica WinterVillage VoiceJessica WinterIt's squeamish about sex but not, unfortunately, sentiment.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe story is slight and would probably be better suited to a short subject, but first-time feature filmmaker Pierre-Paul Renders gives it a striking formal twist: It's told entirely in the first person.
- 40New Times (L.A.)Luke Y. ThompsonNew Times (L.A.)Luke Y. Thompson"Center of the World" portrays a much more believable example of what happens when a computer nerd realizes that his erotic fantasies aren't the same thing as love.
- 30Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumThomas is a couch potato as well as a recluse, and a terminal bore to boot. The women, real and simulated, are only slightly more interesting, and then only when they talk back.
- 25Seattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakSeattle Post-IntelligencerPaula NechakSince we never see Thomas, we can't care for him. And he's hardly a sympathetic "hero" in his treatment of women and his insistence that other characters honor his personal boundaries while he ignores theirs.