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  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Amy Biancolli

    For Kline's performance alone, The Extra Man is well worth seeing. Read full review

  • 70
    Wall Street Journal | John Anderson

    Directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini show the same appreciation for eccentrics and humanity they brought to "American Splendor" and Mr. Dano's Louis is a delicately wrought wonder. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

    The Extra Man" isn't in the same league as Pulcini and Berman's landmark "American Splendor" with Paul Giamatti as the late Harvey Pekar, but it has its moments - especially in its evocation of the sense that New York offers a greater sense of security for brave yet vulnerable individualists the way a sprawling, amorphous and transient city like Los Angeles rarely can. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Although too devoted to matters literary, theatrical, operatic and sexually outre to make it with general audiences, this adaptation of Jonathan Ames' novel exudes the sort of smarts and sophisticated charm specialized audiences seek. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    We know Kline can play kooky (he won an Oscar as Otto in "A Fish Called Wanda"), and he does it very well, but the effort can become exhausting after a while. Read full review

  • 60
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    This odd collection of oddballs doesn't quite play out as a satisfying movie. Read full review

  • 50
    Washington Post |

    Swifter comedic timing and a clearer narrative thread might have helped center this peculiar adaptation of Jonathan Ames's 1998 novel of the same name. Read full review

  • 50
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Kline finds every nuance of mirth and melancholy in this wonder of a role and rides it to glory. You can't take your eyes off him. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    For all its flighty charms, The Extra Man never really lands. It hovers like a hummingbird madly beating its wings to stay aloft. Read full review

  • 50
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    What feels enjoyably outr in the 1998 coming-of-age novel by Jonathan Ames (creator of HBO's Bored to Death) feels oppressively outr in this deadened, literal adaptation. Read full review

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