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41 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThe Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttThrillers don't get much smarter than The Interpreter.
- 83Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumAn elegant adventure of a different kind.
- 80VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyCoolly absorbing without being pulse-quickening.
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe Interpreter bristles with the smart, steadily engrossing tension that marked such 1970s goodies as "All the President's Men," "The Parallax View" and Pollack's own "Three Days of the Condor."
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThe Kidman character is an exotic--and even unlikely--creature, usefully fueling Penn's annoyed but fascinated incredulity.
- 60EmpireEmpireSolid, mature and finely acted, but intermittently daft.
- 60The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneThe Interpreter is long and tangled, the score is yet another drownout from the thundering James Newton Howard, and the avowed thoughtfulness--about sub-Saharan politics, about the clashing commitments to peace and justice, about the kinship of damaged souls--is at once laudable and vaporous.
- 60TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissThere's enough narrative for three fine films. But not enough for The Interpreter. The thriller pieces feel assembled rather than organic.
- 50Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyDallas ObserverRobert WilonskyThe Interpreter dashes the suspense by talking the audience to death.
- 50L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorWhen it comes to the United Nations, though, the movie turns to Jell-O. Whether Pollack was softened up by his meetings with U.N. brass (all the way up to Kofi Annan), or by his own gentlemanly Midwestern liberalism, he is alarmingly circumspect about that august body.