The third act dissolves back into emo indulgence. But before then, you may just have found yourself briefly watching in wonderment, only disturbed by the nagging feeling that this is all very wrong.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 28, 2016

Two fine actors giving full-blooded performances can't prevent Swiss Army Man from seeming pretentious and self-indulgent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 3, 2016

Incredible and not in a good way.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 2, 2016

The richest wellspring of surprise is Daniel Radcliffe's performance as Hank's corpse-companion Manny, combining as it does inspired flesh-and-blood physical comedy with special-effects-enhanced superpowers.

| Sep 30, 2016

You have to hand it to Daniel Radcliffe for being willing to try anything for his art, but playing a fart-powered corpse in Swiss Army Man was perhaps a step too far.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 30, 2016

Dano seems genially crazed with just the right amount of suicidal-existential angst; Radcliffe manages the not-inconsiderable feat of seeming like a dead dude who's clung on by fluke to the power of speech.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 29, 2016

Dano is gentler than ever, Radcliffe agreeably deranged. Like all good relationships, it's a compromise. They make a lovely couple.

| Sep 29, 2016

The premise sounds like an off-Broadway play gone wrong. Far from it - this is extraordinary, vital, and fuelled by great performances.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Sep 29, 2016

All just a bit... flatulent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 26, 2016

[Kwan and Scheinert actually have something to say about relationships, love, family and friendship that is really rather divine and thought-provoking, allowing Hank's journey to salvation to take on a spiritual quality that's shockingly personal.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2016

Who knew a movie that devoted a lot of time to the bowel movements of the deceased could be so profound?

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 14, 2016

It's ingenious stuff but it also becomes fairly tedious after a while.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 11, 2016

This movie is every bit as whimsical as [Jonze and Gondry's] work but lacks the minimal plotting and strong intellectual component that gives their flights of fancy shape and substance.

| Jul 8, 2016

There are moments, especially towards the end, when Hank's behaviour comes across, to my eye at least, as a moving examination of mental illness, of isolation in the ordinary world.. I could have done with more of that, and less of a farting corpse.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 8, 2016

By the end, having failed in its attempt at cleverness, the movie veers into sentiment, the inevitable last resort. The movie fails at that, too.

| Original Score: 0/4 | Jul 6, 2016

If you stick with it, there's a chance it'll grow on you as it grew on me - and you'll be rewarded with maybe the best ending of any movie so far this year.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2016

Loneliness, arrested development and the slow disintegration of the imagination are all topics of interest to the directors, but they approach each with only a cool level of ironic detachment that becomes unbearable after 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 1, 2016

"Swiss Army Man" leaves an impression, but can't complete its job. Like Manny, it's full of hot air.

| Original Score: C | Jul 1, 2016

A movie about the safe haven of imagination, about loneliness and despair and resilience, about obsession and, um, stalking.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2016

It's impossible not to get caught up in it, even if you're simultaneously repelled by it.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2016