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36 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75ConsequenceJustin GerberConsequenceJustin GerberFrenzied, kinetic filmmaking is hit or miss, but The Daniels are showcasing their talents as opposed to showing off.
- 75Slant MagazineChristopher GraySlant MagazineChristopher GrayEven as it invites snarky ridicule, the film dares you to buy into its singular earnestness.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinThe Hollywood ReporterLeslie FelperinIt’s entirely to the directors and the two lead actors’ credit that what sounds like a bunch of overextended body humor gags of the most juvenile variety evolve, by sheer repetitious attrition, into something bizarrely poetic and strangely touching.
- 70VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeAt times deliriously dynamic, at others patience-grating in the extreme, the constantly inventive film fires off ideas that are as exhilarating as anything American audiences will see all year, only to lag in long swells on either side.
- 60The GuardianJordan HoffmanThe GuardianJordan HoffmanIt’s coarse and it’s stupid, but it is, thanks mostly the two good performances and some stylish use of music and editing, a little bit moving.
- 60Screen DailyTim GriersonScreen DailyTim GriersonSwiss Army Man is a powerfully audacious and wilfully odd odyssey that is too nervy and strangely emotional to dismiss outright but, ultimately, isn’t satisfying enough to provoke a full-throated defence, either.
- 58The Film StageJordan RaupThe Film StageJordan RaupSwiss Army Man is an exceptionally unusual, one-of-a-kind achievement, worthy to seek out for that factor alone. However, if as much time was spent on refining the script as was the world-building, this could have been a magical realism fever dream like few others.
- 42The PlaylistRuss FischerThe PlaylistRuss FischerSwiss Army Man is a big swing — there's no denying the risk in putting two well-known actors in a film where one plays a barely-mobile corpse — but also a big whiff that rarely connects its characters and situations to humor or empathy.
- 20Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfA ridiculously infantile film, one that flatters itself by intimating a deeper comment about suppressed masculinity or romantic passivity.