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22 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThis is an amazingly ambitious movie, not so much because of the time and space it covers (a lot), but because Potter trusts us to follow her heroine through one damn thing after another.
- 75San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleIt feels both big and little, concentrating as it does on the small movements in people's lives and the huge tides of history.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyPhiladelphia InquirerCarrie RickeyMelodramatic and strangely moving.
- 63USA TodayAndy SeilerUSA TodayAndy SeilerA curious but intriguing movie that leaves you bemused and more than a little confused.
- 50TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghRicci brings her trademark gravity to the wary Suzie, but Blanchett's role is the dazzler.
- 50Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldSeattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam ArnoldIt's a strange and strangely unaffecting little drama -- but played very flat, with no particular emotional impact sought or achieved.
- 40Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThe Man Who Cried is like a Yiddish generational tearjerker told from the perspective of the lost child rather than that of the bereaved parent.
- 40Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversPotter gets the period details right, but the film itself has long since flown off the rails, miring good intentions in rank soap opera.
- 30VarietyVarietySally Potter, who leapt to critical attention with her 1992 adaptation of Virginia Woolf's "Orlando" -- makes a serious misstep with The Man Who Cried.
- 20Washington PostDesson ThomsonWashington PostDesson ThomsonThe driving drama of such a desperate situation is lost in the movie's casting silliness.