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26 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Christian Science MonitorDavid SterrittChristian Science MonitorDavid SterrittExcellent acting and a finely tuned screenplay spark this genuinely offbeat melodrama.
- 75Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWith no climactic showdown and no comforting revelation of motive or reassuring psychoanalytic diagnosis, the nerve-rattling potential of this sly, paranoia-inducing story may sink in only later.
- 60Film.comPeter BrunetteFilm.comPeter BrunetteFancher seems uninterested in developing real suspense, or incapable of it, at least until the end, when there's plenty of it, but artificially imposed.
- 60Dallas ObserverAndy KleinDallas ObserverAndy KleinDoesn't show us much of anything we haven't seen better already.
- 50The New York TimesStephen HoldenThe New York TimesStephen HoldenTakes such pains to avoid narrative and verbal cliches and anything that could remotely be construed as sentimental or romantic that it feels curiously flat.
- 50New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardThere are absolutely no psychological insights into sick minds in The Minus Man, a poky, opaque drama with a good cast and not much going on upstairs.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThe banality of faceless evil isn't actually all that compelling on the hoof; the film's more interesting as a curiosity than as a film.
- 38New York PostJonathan ForemanNew York PostJonathan ForemanA slow, self-consciously low-key, very dull film that strains for eeriness with long silences and affectless performances.
- 30Austin ChronicleMarc SavlovAustin ChronicleMarc SavlovThe most lackadaisical thriller I've ever seen, overly infatuated with not only the inexplicability of random evil, but also its mundanity.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannA half-baked disappointment...never flies, never comes close to meeting its own expectations.