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(1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1   "It may be full of madcap surrealism and clever-clever meta-cinematic touches, but it is also an unfashionably good-natured film with real heart. Oddball, endearing, and very, very funny..."   Eye for Film   Anton Bitel 4.5/5 "a brilliant little allegory"   Filmcritic.com   Bill Gibron A- "The picture is a harmonious callback to low-fi filmmaking and community spirit, allowing Gondry a wide open meadow to let his viral creativity and mischievous determination frolic...It's endearing eye candy."   DVDTalk.com   Brian Orndorf "The process of Sweding soon becomes a community project, another glance back and ahead at the same time."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 1/4 "...the lack of subtlety with which Gondry has imbued the latter half of the proceedings ensures that the film is ultimately an extraordinarily tough slog indeed."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "Cute but a little empty, Be Kind Remind boasts an original premise without the clarity of writing and character dimension to back it up."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "Alternately so whacked out as to be inaccessible, and so sweet and naïve as to be irresistible."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov F "The level of foolishness here is simply too high, and the execution so slapdash that the result doesn't seem so much a parody of amateurishness as an example of it."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 1/5 "A comedy hobbled by a preposterous plot and a phony finale."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat A- "Gondry finds his pathos in the tragic disconnect between life and invention."   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 2.5/4 "Arguably the biggest problem with Be Kind Rewind is that Gondry never stops experimenting, even when the experimentation works against the movie's best interests."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 3/5 "Be Kind Rewind, like last year's great Sundance film Son of Rambow, is a celebration of the power of film and the joy of the movies; not just great art, but also great trash."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 2.5/4 "Only crazy rubber-faced Jack Black could pull off such a spoofy, overly-eager slapdash of a project."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 10/10 "An ode to finding one's creative side and the joys of being able to share one's creations with others."   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen 3/5 "A surprisingly quiet and whimsical comedy about a ridiculous and unlikely series of events that turns into a nearly-as-likely miracle. Best bit: the film's own Sweded preview."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery C "...quickly devolves into quirky boredom."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 4/5 "Be Kind Rewind not only reminds us why we love film so damn much, it pays tribute to those films that may have had a hand in it."   Bronsonfive   Michael Ferraro B+ "This charming little fairy tale is more than a sweet and heart-warming story; it is a thoughtful exploration of the power of stories, why we are enthralled byhearing and watching them and why we are even more captivated by telling them."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow 3.5/4 "In Michel Gondry's estimation, we're defined by our dreams, our art, and our histories, a conviction he once again expresses with whimsical, lyrical inventiveness."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 4/5 "I liked the various ways in which Gondry utilized his essentially absurdist conceit as an ingenious way of exploring how people relate in deeply personal ways to the power of cinema"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "A scruffy, likeable little comedy, even though it's not actually very funny or involving."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline B- "Ultimately trades in schmaltz of the unearned kind, laying it on so thick in the final act that it effectively smothers out the underdog virtues of its all-too endearing protagonists."   Projection Booth   Rob Humanick C+ "It's central message is that filmmakers are wonderful people, which is pretty much what you would expect filmmakers to say."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten B "... a kind of communal folk art spin on industrialized moviemaking and an affectionate tribute to our relationship to the movies of our lives."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker 3/4 "corny, cool and beautiful"   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell 2.5/4 "quirky"   sbs.is   Stefan Birgir Stefansson 3/4 "[Gondry] seems almost to relish his house-of-cards approach, so much so that the uncharmed critic might reasonably feel it a waste of breath to blow it down. I would agree."   Christianity Today   Steven D. Greydanus 5/10 "At best it's a collection of very good ideas in search of a framework, and at worst a dramatically stale film based on a terribly messy screenplay."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 28) of 28 OFCS Rating: 71% Fresh Page   1