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Metascore®69 out of 100 | Generally favorable reviews

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

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    Darkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream. Read full review

  • 88
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Barthes takes her notion and runs with it, and Giamatti and Strathairn follow fearlessly. Read full review

  • 80
    The New Yorker | Anthony Lane

    Cold Souls has its flaws, and it threatens to sag into a Paul-like morbidity, but Giamatti’s anxious mien and unspectacular shamblings have never been better deployed. Read full review

  • 75
    ReelViews | James Berardinelli

    The chief pleasure to be derived from watching Cold Souls is that it's a journey into the unexpected. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    The low-key satire would have benefited from more of a back story to Giamatti's character and a clearer sense of his relationship with his wife. But what we do get is compelling in the way of an indelible, dreamy short story. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Justin Chang

    An amusing slice of existential whimsy with an Eastern European bent, Cold Souls posits a world in which humans can have their souls extracted and implanted in each others’ bodies. Read full review

  • 70
    Village Voice | Anthony Kaufman

    It may be only in the film's last ambiguous, evocative image that Barthes and Parekh finally transcend the material and arrive at something beautiful and ineffable. Read full review

  • 70
    The New York Times | Manohla Dargis

    In this attractive, smart-enough, finally un-brave movie Ms. Barthes peeks at the dark comedy of the soul only to beat a quick, pre-emptive retreat. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Robert Abele

    Somewhere between the rabbit-hole absurdist comedy of Charlie Kaufman and a navel-gazing Woody Allen film is the somberly humorous indie Cold Souls. Read full review

  • 67
    The Onion (A.V. Club) | Tasha Robinson

    The premise seems profound, but the claustrophobically inert execution lacks reach or imagination. Read full review

Avg. Fan Rating:
Average Rating = 2.8 out of 5

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