69
Metascore
28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 100I love love love love loved Cold Souls. That might be because I love love love Paul Giamatti.
- 91Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumDarkly funny, twisty-cool existential tragicomedy, loaded with smart notions and filmed like a surrealist dream.
- 80The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneCold Souls has its flaws, and it threatens to sag into a Paul-like morbidity, but Giamatti’s anxious mien and unspectacular shamblings have never been better deployed.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversYou'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
- 75USA TodayClaudia PuigUSA TodayClaudia PuigThe low-key satire would have benefited from more of a back story to Giamatti's character and a clearer sense of his relationship with his wife. But what we do get is compelling in the way of an indelible, dreamy short story.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterGiamatti is aptly cast, playing his own persona with awkward anxiety and suitably skewed humor.
- 70VarietyJustin ChangVarietyJustin ChangAn amusing slice of existential whimsy with an Eastern European bent, Cold Souls posits a world in which humans can have their souls extracted and implanted in each others’ bodies.
- 70Village VoiceVillage VoiceIt may be only in the film's last ambiguous, evocative image that Barthes and Parekh finally transcend the material and arrive at something beautiful and ineffable.
- 67The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe premise seems profound, but the claustrophobically inert execution lacks reach or imagination.
- 50Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternWall Street JournalJoe MorgensternThe more elaborate the plot becomes, the sillier it gets.