The plot, dealing with a branching personal timeline, is intricately complex yet masterfully coherent, despite what a few overworked film critics have written.

| Jun 30, 2020

Daring sci-fi with mature themes, sex, and violence.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 28, 2017

[Writer-director] Van Dormael seems unsure of what exactly it is he's trying to say, and thus Mr. Nobody rambles on for nearly two and a half hours.

| Original Score: 2/10 | Aug 18, 2014

There are times when the film is entirely lucid in the points it wants to get across on love and the various choices we have to make throughout our lives, while at other times it seems lost in its overabundance of possibilities.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 24, 2014

Too clinical to have an emotional impact, not romantic enough to engage a standard audience, and not smart enough for viewers looking for an intellectual experience.

| Original Score: C | Feb 20, 2014

ambitious as all get out and a wonder from start to finish.

| Original Score: A- | Nov 12, 2013

While visual excess and occasional thematic bombast softens Mr. Nobody at times, the film nevertheless has poignant, often profound things to say about fate, mortality, consequence and love.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 31, 2013

Never mind that several characters seem to gain or lose British accents throughout the course of the film. The lack of continuity only enhances the sense of deliciously dizzying disequilibrium.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 31, 2013

As philosophy, Mr. Nobody seems sillier than it is profound. But in a parallel reality, more movies would have this degree of insane ambition.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Oct 31, 2013

At the 44-minute mark (I checked) of 'Mr. Nobody,' I loudly sighed and asked, "Good God, when the hell is this movie going to START!"

| Original Score: 3/10 | Oct 31, 2013

A thoughtful investigation into the different variations of all our lives: the daydreams, the anxious worst-case scenarios, the futile digressions that went nowhere.

| Oct 30, 2013

This sprawling, ambitious sci-fi epic has a keen visual sense and a genuine interest in its deep topics.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 29, 2013

The only truly graspable notion the film can be said to put forth is one of increasingly tedious sci-fi-romantic genre busy-ness.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 28, 2013

Jaco van Dormael's most ambitious film to date is a mess and a miracle at the same time.

| Oct 28, 2013

This big-budget English-language co-production shows that Europeans can compete in the sci-fi realm where high production values are king.

| Oct 28, 2013

The aptly titled Nobody is just a white ball bouncing around the roulette wheel, as likely to land on this number as the next. It's fun to watch "Mr. Nobody" go round and round, but where it lands doesn't really matter to us.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 28, 2013

Messy but intriguing science-fiction film.

| Original Score: B | Oct 28, 2013

Most viewers will have settled into a state of detached admiration. In the end, Mr. Nobody's title is simply too apt.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2013

'Mr. Nobody' jumps around in a rather haphazard way, so it seems too chaotic most of the time. It's creative, but quite perplexing.

| Sep 29, 2013

Both overblown and half-baked, too long and not edited enough, Mr. Nobody describes exactly the kind of audience it will likely get.

| Original Score: D | Sep 27, 2013