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Avg. Critic Score: 40 out of 100 Mixed or average reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Charlize Theron is one of the few actresses equal to the role, bringing to it beauty, steel-edged repose, and mystery. Read full review

  • 50
    San Francisco Chronicle |

    A glossy, stiff melodrama. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Unconvincing melodrama. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    Lacks freshness and vitality. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    A lively, plush but unconvincing potboiler cobbled from familiar pieces of better films (and TV miniseries). Read full review

  • 40
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    This pulpy, sex-drenched wartime epic seems frivolous, quaint and foolishly prurient. Read full review

  • 40
    Washington Post |

    The plot contrivances are telegraphed too loudly; the emotional manipulation too obvious. Read full review

  • 33
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Stuart Townsend, Theron's reallife boyfriend, may have inner fires as an actor that have yet to be revealed, but in Head in the Clouds he's a somber puppy who looks as if Theron could eat him alive. I wish she had. Read full review

  • 30
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    A snooze, despite all the sex and other gunplay. Read full review

  • 25
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    This spark-free film has no place to go on their resumes except under the heading of "Cringing Embarrassment." Read full review

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Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids This soapy saga is for adults only.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has extremely explicit sexual references and situations, including orgies, promiscuity, sadism, and same-sex relationships. Characters drink, smoke, and use very strong language. The movie has battle and other wartime violence, torture, and sexual violence. Characters are injured and killed.
  • Families can talk about their own views on determinism vs. free will and how we decide when to become involved in others' fights for freedom.
What to watch for
  • violence false3 Violence: Battle violence, sexual violence, car crash.
  • sex false5 Sex: Very explicit sexual references and situations including multiple partners, same-sex partners, nudity.
  • language false5 Language: Very strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking and smoking, characters get drunk.
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