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

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Ruthe Stein

    By creating likable characters and putting them in situations that seem plausible, if a bit of a stretch, the film succeeds where others of its genre fail. Read full review

  • 63
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    "Maybe" was watchable and blandly pleasant; "Theory" is a smidgen better than that, if not the cruelly funny farce the movie's best impulses and its own trailer would have you believe. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    The lead performers, the brighter fillips in Daniel Taplitz's screenplay and Marcos Siega's ("Pretty Persuasion") assured direction make this a pleasing item overall. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly |

    Peddles the usual carpe diem movie bunk. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times |

    Not exactly bad, but it disappointingly never really discovers the movie that it wants to be. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Michael Rechtshaffen

    The picture continuously shuffles moods like tunes on an iPod without ever making any lasting commitments. Read full review

  • 42
    The Onion A.V. Club | Scott Tobias

    The big reason Chaos Theory doesn't work is that the gears are visibly grinding away, cranking out neat little ironies and life lessons without any liberating surprises. Read full review

  • 40
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    The kind of movie designed more for a has-been than a potential leading man, this slapdash dramatic comedy fits the now-established pattern perfectly: Your (Ryan Reynolds) committed performance is the sole reason to see it. Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Laura Kern

    A predictable romantic dramedy that isn't particularly tender, moving or amusing, Chaos Theory suffers first and foremost from featuring the least engaging couple to headline a movie in some time. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    In Chaos Theory, Reynolds's performance is taut, crabby and tense. And his beard and glasses, which intensify those already narrow eyes, suggest a mad bomb-builder rather than a hapless soul with whom we can identify. Read full review

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