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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 50The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThe Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckThis head-scratcher boasts visual imagination to spare even as its logistical complexities and heavy-handed symbolism ultimately prove off-putting.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsWithout a strong narrative engine, Upside Down ends up exactly where it shouldn't go: sideways.
- Sturgess and Dunst are two actors who have the potential to excel; “Heartless” and “Melancholia” both hold notable performances from them that serve the story and its themes well. Here though, Solanas does the pair no favors.
- 42Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanUpside Down is a very fancy piece of junk.
- 40Time OutKeith UhlichTime OutKeith UhlichThe movie builds to a particularly deflating anticlimax, passing over an inevitably apocalyptic confrontation between spheres with a wink-wink, nudge-nudge bit of dialogue that’s like a rejected punchline from a Douglas Adams novel.
- 40Village VoiceVillage VoiceSolanas comes up with arresting images; it's in telling the story that he stumbles, getting so tripped up in the allegorical details of his invented universe that his characters suffer.
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanIts compelling conceit is immediately weighed down by leaden execution.
- 38Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThe highlight of the film is the moment Jim Sturgess's Adam inadvertently pisses on the ceiling.
- 16The A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonThe A.V. ClubTasha RobinsonMoment for moment, Upside Down is the most embarrassing, hilarious, obliviously stupid movie since M. Night Shyamalan’s "The Happening," and its constant pursuit of a striking image over any other consideration undermines it at every turn.