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

  • 88
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Che looks dazzling, whether the camera is weaving through a battle or trying to bore into Che's haunted soul. Del Toro stands up to Soderbergh's relentless scrutiny. As for the movie, it's a reward to audiences eager to break from the play-it-safe pack. Game on. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Wesley Morris

    The labor applied to Che is apparent, but it would be wrong to characterize the movie as laborious the way it was in, say, 2006's "The Good German," where Soderbergh took great pains to re-create 1940s Hollywood wartime glamour. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Benicio Del Toro, one of the film's producers, gives a heroic performance, not least because it's self-effacing. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    If this earnest, two-part biopic with a total running time of 268 minutes sometimes lacks cinematic flair, the straight-ahead, chronologically-driven film will inform and, to a somewhat lesser extent, excite viewers everywhere. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times |

    The political realities of his legacy can be endlessly debated, but in this flawed work of austere beauty, the logistics of war and the language of revolution give way to something greater, a struggle that may be defined by politics but can't be contained by it. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Mr. Soderbergh once again offers a master class in filmmaking. As history, though, Che is finally not epic but romance. It takes great care to be true to the factual record, but it is, nonetheless, a fairy tale. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    As political theater, Che moves from faith to impotence, which is certainly a valid reading of Communism in the 20th century. Yet as drama, that makes the second half of the film borderline deadly. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Che is a mass of contradictions, perhaps like the iconic revolutionary himself. Read full review

  • 60
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    If the director has gone out of his way to avoid the usual Hollywood biopic conventions, he has also withheld any suggestion of why the charismatic doctor, fighter, diplomat, diarist and intellectual theorist became and remains such a legendary figure; if anything, Che seems diminished by the way he's portrayed here. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    If Soderbergh's ambition was to make us feel just how dull it would be to a woods-dwelling communist guerrilla, he succeeded. Read full review

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