There are plot holes within plot holes within plot holes, and although acres of raw exposition are provided, nothing ever makes proper sense.

| Aug 30, 2018

It was a decent concept (at best) that was not supported with a good screenplay, and grew sillier by the minute. It just didn't work.

| Original Score: D+ | Sep 8, 2017

| Original Score: A- | Feb 14, 2012

Accomplished filmmaking that features two highly attractive, talented leads, a healthy dose of sentiment, an intelligent script, and which takes you away for two hours from the quotidian worries and banalities of your regular life.

| Oct 7, 2011

Nolfi and his colleagues make especially good use of New York, filming everywhere from the Brooklyn waterfront to the lobby of the Museum of Modern Art. It's a fresh look at a familiar city. But Nolfi drops the ball in the home stretch, and that's...

Full Review | Original Score: 2.1/2 | Jun 23, 2011

The film's chief interest isn't plumbing philosophical questions of fate, providence and autonomy but, instead, wallowing in skimpy fairy-tale romanticism.

| Original Score: C | Apr 22, 2011

As artistic endeavour this gives free will a bad name.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 4, 2011

This mind-meld of sci-fi thriller, morality play and passionate romance is worth seeing, mostly for the palpable chemistry between the lead actors.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 4, 2011

I'm a sucker for movies about fate, destiny, and heavenly intervention-going all the way back to On Borrowed Time and Here Comes Mr. Jordan up through Ghost Town with...

Full Review | Mar 20, 2011

Damon and Blunt give such terrific performances you might almost forgive the movie's dopey ending.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 19, 2011

The on-screen pairing of Matt Damon and Emily Blunt is so winning that you may be willing to overlook the oddly modulating tone of the story that brings them together and then tries to keep them apart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 9, 2011

Reworks A Matter of Life and Death with elements of It's a Wonderful Life and shares techniques and themes with Christopher Nolan's Inception.

| Mar 7, 2011

Cradled in Damon's solidly reliable hands, even a movie as extravagantly silly as this one gains heft and credibility, an impressive accomplishment when you consider that the entire plot revolves around magic notebooks and spellbinding hats.

| Mar 4, 2011

Sometimes, a strong premise makes for a weak movie, which ends up drowning in its own clever conceit.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Mar 4, 2011

It's hard to imagine a more spectacularly silly film making it to theaters this year than The Adjustment Bureau.

| Original Score: D+ | Mar 4, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau presents itself as a paean to free will, to overcoming obstacles, to creating your own destiny-provided, that is, that you happen to be a dude.

| Mar 4, 2011

Because the chemistry between Damon and Blunt is so strong, what might have been a jumble of Matrix-style oddments comes across instead as ardent.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 4, 2011

Nolfi's debut is a mild stunner, mixing hope and heart and love and the dire threat of losing it -- or, worse, never realizing you had it -- into a heady, original mix. More, please.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Mar 4, 2011

The Adjustment Bureau has you pondering the angles throughout, and it's a credit to newly minted director George Nolfi that he never lets his foot off the gas pedal.

| Original Score: B+ | Mar 4, 2011

Uses Dick's fantasy conceit … to noodle concepts of fate, free will, chance, Providence and theodicy in a tale of star-crossed lovers appealingly played by Damon and Blunt.

| Original Score: B | Mar 4, 2011