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80
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Dallas Observer Andy Klein
At first glance, Schizopolis may seem like no more than a grab-bag of tricks and gimmicks, but repeat viewings reveal a more coherent pattern.
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75
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San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle
It's fresh, unexpected and goofy. It's not a smart career move, just a film that its director wanted to make for some crazy reason, and he made it.
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70
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The A.V. Club Keith Phipps
Fast-paced and ambitious, it never bores, and Soderbergh proves himself interesting to watch in addition to being gifted behind the camera.
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67
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Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten
It's just that audiences are going to have a hard time tidily summarizing what it is they just experienced (and I suspect the same holds true for Soderbergh himself).
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50
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Los Angeles Times Kevin Thomas
Soderbergh has lots to say but this time seems to lack the confidence to express himself seriously.
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50
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Entertainment Weekly
When it works, it's the best film of the year. When it doesn't, take cover.
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40
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The New York Times Elvis Mitchell
It winds up illustrating the very emptiness it mocks.
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25
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TV Guide Maitland McDonagh
A painfully self-conscious comedy that mistakes relentless self-referentiality for cleverness, this half-witted misfire is filled with accelerated motion, repeated and overlapping scenes, direct address to the camera and other cliches of defamiliarization.
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20
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Variety Todd McCarthy
Some of the filmmaker's keen intelligence remains on display, but only in fractured and often obscure form, and pic overall gives the impression of a giant expurgation of negative feelings about things in general rather than a carefully articulated brief on recognizable subjects.
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20
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Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Given the audacity, it would be a pleasure to report that the results are hilarious, but most of it isn't even funny, and the sense of "anything goes" hangs heavy over the film as it develops.
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