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23 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreThis is more “Something Mild” than “Something Wild.” But Firth and Blunt handle their characters’ many revelations with care and play with layers of hurt and disappointment with great sympathy and pathos.
- 70The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeForeThe Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore[A] sweet, semi-romantic road trip.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanThe way Firth embodies the character, with a robot stare and a flat affect that expresses each thought as a kind of minimalist hologram of emotion, he's playing a cipher who pretends to be a different cipher. How indie-ironic!
- 63Slant MagazineSlant MagazineThroughout Dante Ariola's film, the expressions of the false-identity theme are multitudinous, and about as subtle as the Colin Firth character's choice for a new last name.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfUncourageously, the plot gets a case of cold feet, looping back to half-written family members left in the dust. But when it’s being wild, the drama has nearly enough character to pass for distinct.
- 40VarietyPeter DebrugeVarietyPeter DebrugeFirth and Blunt make a strange couple, and Ariola a musicvideo helmer making his feature debut, should have devoted more time to making the chemistry work than to sustaining the melancholy mood.
- 40Village VoiceMarsha McCreadieVillage VoiceMarsha McCreadieFun for a bit, things soon turn silly.
- 25The PlaylistSimon AbramsThe PlaylistSimon AbramsThis is not the stuff of stirring humanist drama, but rather a bland scenario about boring people that want to mature but have no idea how.
- 20The GuardianHenry BarnesThe GuardianHenry BarnesThe flat-out dullness of Arthur is the point of Dante Ariola's debut feature, but it's also its undoing.