While not genial, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty recaptures the charm of hopeful stories by giving a comedy twist... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 11, 2023

I admire the film’s originality, and the thought-provoking twist ending, but daydream of a deeper director’s cut.

| Sep 23, 2022

Less about Walter Mitty’s secret life than his actual, perfectly romantic, impossibly realized adventures, the film loses itself in a fantasy world all its own and never fully embraces the everyday balance of reality and imagination.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 19, 2022

A frequently inspiring little film, one thrillingly devoid of any cynicism.

| Original Score: B | Sep 17, 2021

It's Stiller's most subdued performance ever, and it looks good on him.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 1, 2021

The frequent fantasy is almost always indistinguishable from the reality - which makes the fantasy not inspiring enough and the reality far too unperceivable.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 4, 2020

Stiller's performance is far more earnest than that which is found in Thurber's more satirical writing.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 22, 2020

If you're a man who daydreams too much about exacting revenge for bullying, and wishing for a better life situation, have a gander at "The Secret Life of Walter Mitty," and then go sign up for a Vision Quest, or a New Warrior Training Adventure.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Apr 2, 2020

Stiller's remake succeeds in a wondrously entertaining and affecting way.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2019

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty fails because it is contrived, an inorganic exercise about what it means to get out of your comfort zone and go for broke. This is the childish fantasy of what that's supposed to look like.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 29, 2019

Stiller delivers an enjoyable take on the modern man's existential crisis, aided greatly by stunning cinematography.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 8, 2019

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty's most disappointing aspect is that Stiller has taken genuinely timeless themes and diluted them in a sea of schmaltz and sentimentality.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 7, 2019

It fails to understand that poignancy isn't something you set out to try and be, and that trying to just makes you look pretentious.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Nov 1, 2018

The story is a combination of romance, action, mystery and comedy. It never misses a beat and skilfully delivers a feel good film that doesn't appear to blatantly manipulate audiences.

| Nov 1, 2018

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty ticks all the boxes for a sweet-natured family film and is spectacular on many levels.

| Aug 24, 2018

There are great moments throughout, but I couldn't help feeling this was largely a wild fantasy on the part of Stiller, who is not a talented straight actor, and who has effortfully stretched the original story beyond all recognition.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Feb 22, 2018

Although Stiller has acted in far-out films like Zoolander before, this one gives viewers another side to this actor - one who can handle such ambitious films with ease.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 18, 2017

There's a nice, chill, un-cynical sweetness to Mitty, that, after a bunch of heavy prestige pics, was welcome.

| Oct 20, 2017

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty can sometimes feel like listening to a high-school slam poet read from his latest diary entry: it's all-too earnest and over-the-top heartfelt. You can't help but smile and look away.

| Aug 24, 2017

Along with turning in a nuanced performance, Stiller proves he has developed a keen ear and eye as a filmmaker.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 25, 2016