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

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    A reality-twisting cousin to "Being John Malkovich" -- showcases a Van Damme who's sly like a fox about his own image. Read full review

  • 75
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    JCVD may not be the first meta-musclehead movie, but it's certainly the most surprising. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    A shrewd satire about stardom and the cult of celebrity. Read full review

  • 75
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    JCVD is a whimsical twist on the biopic, sending up heist movies and breaking cinematic rules to interesting effect. At a critical moment, Van Damme rises out of a tense hostage situation to look into the camera and speak movingly to the audience. He has never seemed more convincing. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Van Damme says worse things about himself than critics would dream of saying, and the effect is shockingly truthful. Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post |

    Inventive, insightful and utterly surprising movie. It takes you places you're not prepared to go: namely, into the soul of a performer best known for flying back kicks. Who, by the way, can act. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety |

    A French-language meta-movie parody par excellence, constitutes the headiest stretch of the beefy star's career since, well, ever. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter |

    JCVD should entertain both movie and action buffs. Van Damme proves once and for all that he's not just a set of glistening pectorals. However, he's still in no danger of being asked to play Hamlet. Read full review

  • 60
    Los Angeles Times |

    The giddy near-brilliance of its central conceit is squandered by flat execution. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | A.O. Scott

    Some of this is affecting, some of it tedious, and the film's inconsistencies of tone are made more glaring by its peculiar look. Read full review

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