[A] multi-stranded slice of phoney-baloney, manipulative claptrap.

| Nov 16, 2014

In its lesser moments, the film seems as banal and manipulative as any afternoon 온라인카지노추천 soap. Another way of looking at the film is as Haggis's own very idiosyncratic and intimate essay.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 14, 2014

What is it with Paul Haggis? Has he forgotten how to tell a simple story?

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 14, 2014

The larger edifice feels distinctly jerry-built and, sure enough, when nudged sharply in the final scenes it comes crashing disastrously about the director's ears.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 14, 2014

It's a deeply dubious luxury-tourist fantasy about parallel lives in various foreign hotel rooms, and it shows a very strange need to punish and humiliate its female characters.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2014

An interminable illusive boondoggle with clunky turns and a flat, uninspiring reveal.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 13, 2014

It's couture misery: dress by Valentino, watch by Breitling, lingering sexual regrets model's own.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 13, 2014

If Crash set your teeth on edge, book in at the dentist's before seeing this one.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 10, 2014

"Third Person" is such a solipsistic, navel-gazing creation that it seems to have barely made it out of Haggis' mind and onto the screen.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 11, 2014

Even if the story begins to melt into itself, at the end it's still fascinating to watch Haggis move his players.

| Original Score: B | Jul 10, 2014

It's all, I'm sorry to say, a melodramatic slog.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 10, 2014

"Third Person" doesn't lack for ambition, and it's nice to see Neeson in the kind of role that he excelled at before he morphed into an action star. But the film may have some folks wishing they'd bought a ticket to "Transformers 4" instead.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 10, 2014

Trust is essential to any love relationship, writer-director Paul Haggis wants us to know, though he trusts us so little to grasp this theme ourselves that he makes his alter ego here, a world-weary novelist played by Liam Neeson, spell it out.

| Jul 7, 2014

Haggis is not a subtle filmmaker. He leaves no agency for the audience, and his facile construction of this story is condescending at best.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jul 7, 2014

Plumbing emotional depths, Haggis turns the characters' tribulations onto the viewer: If white is the color of trust -- as Neeson's author writes -- aren't we all a little gray?

| Jul 7, 2014

It makes sense that these people all seem puzzled. They're pieces.

| Jul 6, 2014

Third Person falls into a kind of fugue state. The lines between characters become blurred, their respective losses and heartbreaks dissolving into a melancholy vapor. Or vapidity. Take your pick.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 2, 2014

"Third Person" staggers well over the two-hour mark only to self-destruct in a burst of overwrought cleverness.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 1, 2014

Though Haggis has crafted an ambitious tale, it is way too complicated and convoluted.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jun 27, 2014

"Third Person" aims to be singular, but winds up being hoist on its own conceit: Fiction may not be real, but we're still supposed to believe at least a word of it.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 26, 2014