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18 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinSet against lovely verdant scenery but structured as a series of rambling vignettes, the stories in Being Human don't entirely mesh.
- 70Chicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumChicago ReaderJonathan RosenbaumSome of the precise meanings of this Bill Forsyth comedy eluded me, but the vibes couldn't have been nicer.
- 50Boston GlobeJay CarrBoston GlobeJay CarrBeing Human isn't totally devoid of the gentle Forsyth magic. But it doesn't have nearly enough of it. Even Williams can do only so much with an assignment that calls for him to mostly stand around looking bummed out - in quintuplicate. [06 May 1994]
- 42Baltimore SunBaltimore SunThis is a strange and indeed foolish film. [29 Apr 1994]
- 40Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovA nifty idea that goes everywhere (and nowhere).
- 38ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliFor all of its existential posturing, Being Human ends up being a rather shallow motion picture.
- 38TV Guide MagazineEthan AlterTV Guide MagazineEthan AlterBill Forsyth's films are always idiosyncratic, but Being Human is so steeped in the director's interior dialogue with himself as to be incomprehensible to anyone who doesn't happen to be Bill Forsyth
- 20EmpireEmpireThere are atmospheric shots of billowing thunder clouds, priests on cliff tops, bloody stigmata and moody eclipses, but it all amounts to nothing.
- 0VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyBeing Human never comes alive. This stillborn series of little fables is so flat and ill-conceived that it could convince the uninitiated that neither Robin Williams nor the highly idiosyncratic Scottish writer-director Bill Forsyth had any talent.
- 0Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanBeing Human doesn't seem to be about anything: Its five astonishingly limp parables might have been spun by a depressed Aesop who forgot to take his Prozac.