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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 63McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreMcClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreHaggis lets us get way ahead of the characters and the figure out what the title of this writerly tale — Third Person — has to do with the sometimes illogical connections between stories. That’s not a problem. Dragging, dragging dragging the tales out after he reaches a logical climax and something close to a resolution with each is not.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe Hollywood ReporterDeborah YoungThe drama and intensity that are [Haggis's] signatures are mostly missing from these vividly dramatized but uninvolving romantic crises, none of which are particularly believable.
- 50The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyThe revelation is Wilde. A slender beauty with high cheekbones, she makes Anna a full-fledged neurotic, candid and demanding and changeable, shifting abruptly from snuggling happiness to angry defiance.
- 40Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfIt’s crushing, then, that the movie’s big reveal is the kind of narrative do-over that could only spring from the mind of an almighty writer in love with playing God — or with himself.
- 30Village VoiceAmy NicholsonVillage VoiceAmy NicholsonWhen the head-scratching impossibilities are more irritating than intriguing, does the last-second explanation outweigh the two hours we've spent rolling our eyes?
- 20The GuardianCatherine ShoardThe GuardianCatherine ShoardThird Person is a work of staggering trash; an ensemble drama with the aesthetic of an in-flight magazine, but less classy writing.
- 12New York PostKyle SmithNew York PostKyle SmithPaul Haggis’ Third Person has nothing to say and spends 2 ¹/₂ hours not saying it. Its combination of pretentiousness, vanity and vapidity suggests Alain Resnais directing a triple episode of “Guiding Light.”
- 0The PlaylistKevin JagernauthThe PlaylistKevin JagernauthThird Person is an audacious failure, one that even its starry cast can't save. With a trite script, and an even more glib thematic undercurrent, Third Person is nothing short of an outright embarrassment.
- 0Slant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneSlant MagazineSteve MacfarlaneIf the glue holding Crash's arcs together was Paul Haggis's belief in the power of racism, this time it's love.