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Metascore®77 out of 100 | Generally favorable reviews

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Nathan Rabin

    It’s a film of stunning beauty and deep underlying sadness, a self-financed labor of love filled with impossibly gorgeous, oft-unclothed men and dazzling eye candy. Read full review

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Firth plays him as a man of his time who is also mournfully ahead of his time. He's addicted to his own broken heart. A Single Man may break yours as well. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Betsy Sharkey

    For the most part, Ford has done good by the film, infusing a sad story with warmth and humor to spare. While loss is what makes George's experience universal, heart is what gives him such life. Read full review

  • 90
    Variety | Leslie Felperin

    Like the speck of sand that seeds a pearl, it’s the tiny fleck of kitsch at the heart of “A Single Man” that makes it luminous and treasurable, despite its imperfections. Read full review

  • 90
    Time | Richard Corliss

    Tom Ford -- the Texas-born fashion designer who for a decade was the creative director at Gucci -- financed this first feature himself. The producer couldn't have hired a smarter director. Read full review

  • 80
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    While A Single Man has its flaws, many of these fade in view of the performance and the power of Isherwood’s story. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Firth plays George superbly, as a man who prepares a face to meet the faces that he meets. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Though the deliberate pace can feel slow to glacial at times, the visuals are gorgeous, and the melancholy mood is exquisitely evoked. Read full review

  • 63
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    A Single Man tells us about love, isolation, and sorrow, but never makes us feel any of those things. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | Scott Foundas

    A Single Man, with one significant exception, gives us only a series of immaculate poses. The exception is Firth, who, in spite of Ford's best efforts to turn him, too, into another piece of movable scenery, manages to convey a real human soul stirring beneath George's petrified façade Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 4.2 out of 5

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