54
Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Philadelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonPhiladelphia Daily NewsGary ThompsonThe movie is often whimsical, a tone augmented by clever use of special effects and sudden flourishes of animation. Offbeat soundtrack selections and effective music by composer Andrew Harris help set the mood — ultimately genial and hopeful, and the movie is short and sweet.
- 70Los Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinLos Angeles TimesGary GoldsteinDirector Jason James, working off a darkly amusing, often lovely script by Jason Filiatrault, effectively juggles the film's disparate, tone-shifting parts and bits of magic realism while coaxing memorable performances from Middleditch, Weixler and Bang.
- 63Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreBut the script has laugh-out-loud moments and zippy exchanges. Middleditch and Weixler give this smarts and just enough sexy sass to work. And Bang gives it heart.
- 63The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerEntanglement suffers from an unsureness in tone, somewhere between quirky and sombre.
- 63The Seattle TimesThe Seattle TimesThe script isn’t great, but the plot turns and visuals can be striking, and Jess Weixler has fun as the bad-girl sister Ben finds.
- 60The New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisThe New York TimesJeannette CatsoulisImpressively photographed and perkily paced, Jason Filiatrault’s story never droops quite as much as its lead character, injecting a welcome poignancy that tempers the cuteness.
- 58The Film StageJared MobarakThe Film StageJared MobarakMuch of the film is forgettable in the sense that you’ve seen it all before. But where the jokes at the beginning feel tired, the drama at the end lands.
- 40Village VoiceSerena DonadoniVillage VoiceSerena DonadoniBen’s carefully plotted healing diminishes the complexity of mental illness, and gives James’s sweet vision a bitter aftertaste. Filiatrault uses too-neat bookending in the place of dramatic resolution, so that the story of a man hanging on by a thread is nicely tied up in a bow.
- 38Slant MagazineDerek SmithSlant MagazineDerek SmithBen doesn't deserve our sympathy, in part for how noxiously the film has imagined the female characters who surround him.
- 30VarietyNick SchagerVarietyNick SchagerLike James’ direction, full of off-center and oddly angled compositions that aren’t warranted by the action, Entanglement dresses up familiar romantic-comedy themes with affected gimmicks to jumbled ends.