…as good as film as could be made from this particular book…

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 12, 2023

Winterbottom's film ... is not, in the end, a serious effort. It competently incorporates a few of the novel's more celebrated episodes, but prefers to take the line of least resistance.

| Feb 14, 2021

A Cock and Bull Story is an admirable effort, but an ultimately disappointing one.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jan 12, 2019

... it's a great deal of sheer fun, showcasing Coogan as one of the best comic actors working today.

| Mar 6, 2018

Coogan may be game and there are plenty of nods to assorted sexploits, but this riffing on his caddish public image was done a lot more amusingly and a lot less smugly in a 10-minute skit in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and Cigarettes.

| Jan 17, 2018

Films where you suddenly hear yourself laughing, where you leave the theatre a little weakened by the violence of your own hilarity, are extremely rare.

| Aug 24, 2017

| Original Score: B | Feb 18, 2012

A typically rambling, freewheeling effort from Michael Winterbottom...

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 22, 2011

Director Michael Winterbottom may not have proved that you can film this unfilmable book, but he definitely proved he can film a funny movie about trying to film it.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Oct 6, 2010

Coogan and Brydon make a beautiful squabbling couple

| Aug 30, 2009

Equal parts literature and lunacy.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 28, 2008

For those who can appreciate the movie's ironic, self-referential nature, this is a thoroughly engaging, near-brilliant comedy.

| Jul 10, 2007

If you go into this movie expecting a traditional narrative tale, you may get discouraged. You have to throw away your expectations and sit back and wait to see what happens ... if anything.

| Original Score: 4.25/5 | Apr 8, 2007

If you ever enjoyed an English comedy show on the telly and you're ready for a laugh, you're going to love this. Don't worry if you haven't the faintest idea what it's about. No one else does either.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Dec 30, 2006

A successful mix of literary adaptation, meta-fictional discourse and inside-showbiz comedy. Both funny and clever.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2006

[O]ne of the cleverest deconstructions and modernizations of a work of classic literature cinema has ever achieved...

| Nov 20, 2006

...Preposterously funny, perpetually inventive, implausibly successful...

Full Review | Nov 11, 2006

Adventurous, ambitious and downright quirky, this will appeal to those who revel in more than a little bite in their humour.

| Jun 21, 2006

un film dont on se dlecte autant pour la redoutable intelligence de son rcit et le ct fl de sa structure narrative que pour son humour aussi mordant que dsopilant

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jun 5, 2006

The film is complex and droll--always amusing and often hilarious.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 12, 2006