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Stranger Than Fiction (2006)   Movie Main Page Movie Overview   Movie Details   Showtimes & Tickets   DVD/Video Info   Trailers & Clips   Cast and Credits   Awards & Nominations Reviews and Previews Critics Reviews   User Reviews Photos   Premiere Photos   Production Photos Community   Message Board Shopping   Buy the DVD/Video Other Resources   Web Sites Recommendations Sign in to receive personalized recommendations. Sign In Or  Sign Up   Movie Lists An all-time favorite? A movie not to miss? Add to My Movies! Email this page to a friend   Critics Reviews Average Grade:   B- Source Brief Review Grade* Atlanta Journal-Constitution Eleanor Ringel Gillespie "Fanciful, funny and very smart." more... B   Boston Globe Wesley Morris "The casting is so conventional that you can imagine the actors were hired by committee." more... C- Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert "What a thoughtful film this is, and how thought-stirring." more... A- Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips "Live your life to the fullest, the movie says. Nothing new there, but it's a nice reminder." more... B   E! Online Caroline Kepnes "The concept is highbrow, indeed. But a concept is nothing without momentum." more... C+ Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman "...an eminently easy-to-watch piece of one-joke pop japery..." more... B- filmcritic.com Chris Cabin "The scenes between Gyllenhaal and Ferrell are remarkably sweet and ethereal without being overly sentimental." more... B   Hollywood Reporter John DeFore "...more heart-warming than experimental." more... B   New York Post Kyle Smith "With its musings on free will and God, the story may not be original, but caring about its hero is automatic for the audience. That's more than most movies can say." more... B- New York Times A.O. Scott "The ending is a nicely executed bit of metaphysical farce, in which all the strands of Harold's fate converge, but the final notes are more than a little false." more... B- ReelViews James Berardinelli "...does a lot of things exceedingly well and almost none poorly." more... A- Rolling Stone Peter Travers "...a gently absurdist fable." more... B   San Francisco Chronicle Mick LaSalle "What might have been a joke with a tagged-on sentimental ending becomes instead a sensitive movie that affirms the value of life." more... B   Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold "...tiresomely written, badly acted by a stellar cast and ploddingly directed..." more... C- USA Today Claudia Puig "...a tribute to the power of literature." more... B   * Yahoo! Movies converts each critic's published rating into a letter grade. If the critic's review does not include a rating, Yahoo! Movies assigns a grade based on an assessment of the review. (more...)