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2006
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Positive Reviews
47
Negative reviews
9
Average Rating
3.5
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4.5
But rarely has such meta ness been put to such deep and insightful literary use, or handled with such heart.
EW
5.0
Now comes Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, the movie, which never gets around to filming the book.Since the book is probably unfilmable, this i ..
Rogerebert
3.8
The conceit of this Tristram Shandy is that it knows its a movie, much as Sternes book knew it was a novel.
2.5
Its pretty funny. You dont actually watch it so much as indulge it and admire its cleverness.
3.5
By all accounts, Sternes novel is nutty and ribald and utterly defiant of conventional storytelling techniques hence this adaptations wonderfully meta ..
1.5
Power meant war..I love how your acting style makes Bogart look animated.
Telegraph
3.8
The filmmakers spoof the arduous process of getting a movie made.
San Francisco Chronicle
4.0
But not for the imaginative Winterbottom.Armed with a clever screenplay by Martin Hardy, he has come up with a hilarious tale that shuttles back and f ..
Spirituality And Practice
2.5
But as a whole the film never picked up any steam to run with its cock and bull story.
Sover
3.1
Tristram Shandy is enjoyable in a non demanding way, but its not the kind of motion picture that will attract widespread appeal or be remembered long ..
ReelViews
3.8
The new Tristram is undeniably funny, albeit in intermittent chunks.However, the connection between the novel, the film within a film and the real lif ..
Combust Ible Celluloid
3.8
I find myself admiring it more from a distance than I did watching it.
Mark Reviews Movies
3.5
Laura Clifford Robin Clifford In the mid eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne published nine volumes of a most unusual type of fictional biography.
2.5
One ultimately cant help but sympathize with the woman; Jolies stunning, absolutely convincing performance certainly cements this feeling, and its ver ..
Reel Film Reviews
4.2
Its a movie about the making of a movie about a book thats about the writing of a book.
Eric Ds Nider
4.5
The film is complex and droll always amusing and often hilarious.
News Review
2.5
It doesnt take too much of intelligence to write such a story for Suresh Gopi.
indiaglitz
3.5
Every moment contains a joke dialog, visual gags, riffs on film set life, parodies of both biopics and period movies.The film within the film is amusi ..
Shadows On The Wall
4.0
The Good The film is jam packed with gags, witty lines and visual jokes.
View London
3.5
Tristram Shandy is that best of all worlds: a continual surprise from one scene to the next.
Film Journal International ..
3.8
Still, this British import is a good natured comedy featuring several laugh out loud sequences.
Deseret News (Salt Lake Ci ..
4.4
Its full on metafiction 200 years ahead of schedule: howlingly funny if you can get on its wavelength, impenetrably bizarre if you cant.
Boston
3.8
You dont ask me a question in my f ing province: Toronto police investigating viral video of racial confrontation at waterfront The video, which shows ..
Toronto Star
3.5
At least A Cock and Bull Story works as much as it needs to; genuine laughs can be found here, all the way through the end credits.
Reel Talk Reviews
4.5
The movies delights unfold like an intricate, exotic puzzle: Winterbottom has built a detailed, miniature universe inside a sugar egg.
Salon
3.5
Its one of the few times in years Ive seen a movie that felt too shortI could easily have done with another 40 minutes of antic goofing.
Slate
4.5
A successful mix of literary adaptation, meta fictional discourse and inside showbiz comedy. Both funny and clever.
Empire
4.0
All the same, it is refreshingly unique and the comedy cuts close enough to the bone to be effective.
4.5
With a subject seemingly so amenable to heartless derision, the film is remarkable for its warmth and generosity and conviviality.
Observer
4.5
Its also hysterically funny, weird and like nothing else youll see all year.
Movies
5.0
More an irreverent take on the world of filmmaking than a period drama, this is one of the funniest British movies in years.
Bbc
4.0
This brisk and wickedly pointed mockumentary about football and American ideas of justice gets more sly as it clips along.
Flickfilosopher
4.5
For a movie about movies, its surprisingly humanistic, cheerful and true to life.
Calendar Live
3.5
While it will never take the place of Cliffs Notes and tends to lose itself in its diffuse diversions, Winterbottom carves his own intimate tale out o ..
Seattle Pi
0.5
What it is, is a film about nothing with nothing to say about nothing.
Tony Medley
4.5
For those willing to wait for small but clever gems like that, its a rich and satisfying experience.
3.1
Movie credits Director Michael Winterbottom Actor Steve Coogan Movie facts Year released 2006 The movie is fun to watch and fun to think about, even i ..
Movie Habit
4.0
Underneath the movies tricky hall of mirrors surface lies a warm, delicate and, yes, distinctly Shandy esque portrait of the struggle of creation.
La Weekly
3.0
A vehicle that somehow manages to provide period and modern amusement with some wit and tribulation. But it also looks like a make work project for av ..
Varia Gate
4.0
Although the filming and storytelling is a bit more complicated than your average movie, its all very accessible and funny.
Three Movie Buffs
2.0
If you ever enjoyed an English comedy show on the telly and youre ready for a laugh, youre going to love this. Dont worry if you havent the faintest i ..
Nz Herald
3.8
The University of Missouri has closed its investigation of Terrence Phillips and did not find enough evidence to support allegations of rape, stalking ..
Kansas City
3.0
However, there is little in Winterbottoms film that approximates the novels occasional bursts of sadness, and here the director tempted to breeze past ..
Film Guardian
4.5
Its official: Michael Winterbottom makes the best cinematic whatchamacallits around.
Or Lando Weekly
3.5
Winterbottom has given plugged in moviegoers a visceral, mind bending meta experience, and some good laughs.
Jam! Movies
4.0
Winterbottom makes nothing of this, but like everything else in Tristram Shandy, it tickles.
Ny Mag
1.9
You would think book would be unfilmable, and youd be right. But that didnt stop Michael Winterbottom from taking it on.
M Tv
4.0
Films about filmmaking always run the risk of seeming a bit clever clever and injokey, but Winterbottom succeeds in keeping it light and entertaining ..
Future Movies
4.4
But director Michael Winterbottom and screenwriter Martin Hardy have created from it a delightfully twisted and turned about movie within a movie a go ..
Seattle Times
1.0
Yes, yes, and yes.Bubble is not a movie but a doodle, a whim, possibly a bet, both self sufficient and utterly incomplete.
Cine Passion
1.5
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 w ..
Cinematical
3.5
Laughter, if only for a moment, is enough, and what else can you do, really, life is so utterly ridiculous, even at the darkest, grimmest moments, whi ..
The Tyee
4.0
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Google
1.5
The novelist called Lockes groundbreaking essay a history book .. of what passes in a mans own mind.
World Socialist Web Site
1.2
A thin slice of a not very interesting nothing... The book they said was unfilmable turns out to be a film that is unwatchable.
About Film
4.0
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Nyc Film Critic
3.5
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story aims for more than light comedy, but it doesnt quite achieve it.
Gay City News
4.5
Its a nonsense of a 500 page book, un filmable on any practical terms, and thats why A Cock and Bull Story wisely doesnt even try.
film-authority.com
4.5
For those who can appreciate the movies ironic, self referential nature, this is a thoroughly engaging, near brilliant comedy.
DVD Review
1.5
A Cock and Bull Story is an admirable effort, but an ultimately disappointing one.
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