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

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Some kind of sweet, wacky masterpiece. Read full review

  • 83
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The movie bubbles with intellectual curiosity and narrative ambition. Read full review

  • 70
    New York Magazine | David Edelstein

    Part goofy drug comedy, part shocking bloodbath. It's a riot of tones and genres, but unlike that other recent hybrid, "Pineapple Express," the parts add up to something larger. Read full review

  • 70
    Boxoffice Magazine |

    Writer/director Tim Blake Nelson manages a finely tuned balance that is rare in cinema. Moving from the far reaches of comedy to the nether regions of drama, he never skips a beat or sets the pitch too high. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Observer | Rex Reed

    Don't be misled by the title Leaves of Grass. Do not expect literacy, either. This stoner comedy has nothing whatsoever to do with Walt Whitman or poetry of any kind. Read full review

  • 50
    The New Yorker | David Denby

    The movie is a showcase for digital technology and for Norton's virtuosity, but I wish it weren't such a weightless shambles. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice | J. Hoberman

    His (Nelson) timing is off and his bullshit detector nonexistent. I don't much care for the Coens, but the sad truth is that their cynical nihilism is a lot less spurious than Nelson's earnest sentimentality. Read full review

  • 50
    Variety | Dennis Harvey

    A mixed bag of often mismatched ideas. Read full review

  • 40
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    It is so outrageous with its ethnic caricatures, hokey plot and twin-brother mix-ups that you know the whole thing is a lark. Read full review

  • 40
    Time Out New York | Keith Uhlich

    A dumb comedy out to prove its genre-defying smarts--the title is both an onscreen-supported reference to Walt Whitman and a wacky-tobaccy allusion--Leaves of Grass is a mostly mirthless affair; not even the sight of Edward Norton portraying twins tickles as it should. Read full review

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