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Metascore
30 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Dallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufDallas ObserverGregory WeinkaufPits good taste against rousing intellectual provocation, and, happily, allows both to win.
- 70New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNoah Taylor does startlingly well by this role, but the conceit behind the film is a bizarre piece of wish-fulfillment.
- 60VarietyTodd McCarthyVarietyTodd McCarthyThe film is ultimately too glib in its suggestion that Hitler's discovering his career path was a matter of sheerest chance, even an accident.
- 50SlateDavid EdelsteinSlateDavid EdelsteinAs a ravishingly photographed, high-minded meditation on the potential of art and therapy to exorcise the vilest sort of psychological poison, it is positively riotous -- an Everest of idiocy.
- 50The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick GroenThe whole film occupies pretty much the same continuuum -- glimmers of intelligence followed by moments of outright hysteria punctuated by bouts of sheer haplessness.
- 40L.A. WeeklyElla TaylorL.A. WeeklyElla TaylorSuggests that had young Adolf Hitler managed to get his art show, the Holocaust might never have happened. This seems absurd, not to say insensitive.
- 38New York Daily NewsJami BernardNew York Daily NewsJami BernardA serious and thoughtful movie that probably does not mean to trivialize the Holocaust and blame the victim. But it is playing with fire nevertheless.
- 30The A.V. ClubNathan RabinThe A.V. ClubNathan RabinQuirky, unsatisfying portrait.
- 30Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranLos Angeles TimesKenneth TuranJust because people are objecting to Max for all the wrong reasons doesn't make it a good film, and it's not. It's a bizarre curiosity memorable mainly for the way it fritters away its potentially interesting subject matter via a banal script, unimpressive acting and indifferent direction.