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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineRenaissance Man is an exceptionally unoriginal comedy with a heart-tugging streak as big as Fort Bragg, but it succeeds perfectly well on its own unambitious terms.
- 60The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinInherently condescending, and finally awash in warm-bath sentimentality, this setup never goes out of style.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumThe big underachiever turns out to be DeVito, who is incapable of exhibiting believable warmth and complexity, or, indeed, of playing anyone who is not a cartoon.
- 50ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliRenaissance Man is a movie of moments, too many of which are mediocre or unfulfilling.
- 50Washington PostWashington PostThis is not brilliant emotional manipulation.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenFrom the ad campaign, we pretty much know how things are going to turn out, and her pedestrian attempts at subplots are even more transparent than those in "Awakenings."
- 40EmpireKim NewmanEmpireKim NewmanThis is a feel good movie which is too mechanically put together to make you feel anything.
- 40TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissWarm-hearted humanism is glopped all over Renaissance Man in the hopes that we won't notice that the story makes no sense.
- 40VarietyVarietyMarshall has tried to do too much, dealing with certain subplots too sparingly to deliver on their promise.
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertRenaissance Man is a labored, unconvincing comedy that seems cobbled together out of the half-understood remnants of its betters.