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2015
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Positive Reviews
48
Negative reviews
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Average Rating
3.2
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2.8
Its like were watching a jokey remake of Maniac, minus all but a few drops of outre gore.
Av Club
1.5
Sporadically funny as a comedy (the cats sweary outbursts are good value), The Voices stumbles when it comes to drama and suspense.
Den Of Geek
3.0
While watching something this messy is usually entertaining and believe me, the film is far from dull its very hard to look back on The Voices as much ..
We Got This Covered
4.5
The contrast in tones and styles isnt always fluid, but The Voices succeeds in humanising Jerry.
Screen Daily
4.5
Its a wholly unique film that, while becoming a bit more conventional in its third act, is still gleefully violent, wickedly funny, and oddly charming ..
Collider
3.0
It pulls back, but the hesitation feels less like playful subversion and more like a poverty of imagination.
Vulture
3.8
Its a moment of levity that balances out the gruesomeness of many of the films harder to stomach scenes, but at the end of the film, there are far too ..
Paste Magazine
3.8
It may be hard to believe until you see it but this is a truly subtle take on a man who has conversations with his pets.
Rogerebert
4.5
In spite of its dark context, The Voices is indisputably funny and colorful.
The Young Folks
0.0
So when he thinks his cat, Mr. Whiskers, is urging him (in a Scottish burr) toward evil, Jerry complies.
Ny Daily News
2.5
Satrapi is clearly trying hard to make a film thats exciting on a visceral level, but the tone just doesnt work.
JoBlo
3.8
Think of this stylish, quirky and quite grisly feature from Marjane Satrapi as a meeting of Psycho, Dexter and Dr. Doolittle.
The Globe And Mail
3.8
Its strange enough to watch the pitch black comedy, but to gift wrap it in a way that would encourage ticket sales is an impossible challenge.
Blu Ray
3.8
The Voices is undeniably hard to watch.With its gruesome body count and abrupt tone changes, it can feel as deranged as its main character.
Usa Today
1.0
Its wretchedly unfunny and tonally erratic, the striking production design notwithstanding.
The Times
4.0
The plot is a little too tailored to draw sympathy for Jerry, but the overall approach is daring and Reynolds offers a wonderfully funny, vivid and ha ..
Radio Times
3.0
The film is gory, odd (with its scenes of talking animals and severed heads in fridges), horribly uneven but intermittently very funny in its own tast ..
Independent
1.0
The film efficiently succeeds in being nasty in a boring and depressing way.
The Guardian
2.0
Tonally unhinged is the best way to describe this psycho comedy from the co director of Persepolis, in which Ryan Reynolds plays a Norman Bates y nice ..
The Guardian
3.0
From here its a clattering fairground ride through to the finish line.
The Guardian
2.5
The three way exchanges occasionally rise above the predictable, and provide a couple of the movies rare laughs.
Npr
2.5
Is a scene stiffly acted and strangely lit because were seeing it through the eyes of a madman.Or is it just stiffly acted and weirdly lit
Slate
4.0
Satrapis bold, bright and entertaining creation is laced with a pitch black, sometimes truly sick sense of humour; its wrong on many levels but thats ..
Flim List
2.0
Do you think Ryan Reynolds is a good actor in bad movies or a bad actor in bad movies
Film Inquiry
3.0
Full force performance form Ryan Reynolds but not as funny as it hopes it is.
Empire
3.8
Shocking and compassionate, Mr. Reynolds is an amazing mix of sweetness and depravity, giving a performance of astonishing depth.
Observer
3.0
Iranian born director Marjane Satrapi published her own unique life story in the comic book Persepolis, made it into an animated feature, and followed ..
Common Sense Media
0.6
The problem, beyond a general hideous un funniness, is that the films premise is deeply repulsive.For about half of the film, Jerrys insanity is meant ..
Slant Magazine
2.5
Grisly but not especially suspenseful, tongue in cheek without any real wit, The Voices aims to hit the intersection of horror and comedy but tumbles ..
The New York Times
3.8
After debuting with the deeply personal animation, Persepolis (along with co director Vincent Paronnaud), her overlooked drama Chicken with Plums disp ..
The Film Stage
3.2
By the time we get to the closing singalong (with Jesus!), youll be left wondering if Satrapis the one whos been taking Jerrys meds....a true cult ite ..
Reeling Reviews
1.0
Ive said it before, but this has never been more apropos: I am tired of being expected to have a sense of humor about the violent abuse and even the m ..
Flickfilosopher
3.5
Its an extraordinarily warm and funny movie about a likable schizophrenic murderer; its candy colored and meticulously composed and yet also shiny wit ..
Blogs Indie Wire
3.5
Oscar nominees Anna Kendrick and Jacki Weaver co star in this wild and occasionally hilarious genre crossbreed that seems tailor made for fantastic fi ..
Hollywood Reporter
3.5
One murder after another gets in the way, and if Jerry never quite knows how to behave while off or on his meds, The Voices is similarly split over fi ..
Los Angeles Times
2.5
In tapping Satrapi to interpret this project, the producers have done about as well as one could expect with such material.
Variety
3.1
Its interesting stuff that generally manages to sustain the viewers interest, although Hajdu does push the films spare vibe almost to its breaking poi ..
Reel Film
4.2
The films look is so cloying that pizza has heart shaped pepperoni.
La Weekly
4.0
Reynolds has never been more charming or spine chilling often simultaneously in what is a genuinely multifaceted tragicomic performance.
Digital Spy
3.0
Second chances are rare for falling stars in Hollywood, but Ryan Reynolds may just be carving one out.
Games Radar
3.8
Not for the squeamish or easily offended, but a demented delight for those who like their films hard to categorize.
New York Post
3.5
The Voices is a film that most definitely flips its tone at a moments notice; at times it can be simply brutal and even quite gory, yet there are also ..
Star Burst Magazine
4.0
Utterly bonkers, this movie confounds any attempt to categorise it, blending comedy, romance, horror and drama to become a true one off.
Contact Music
3.5
Its not the greatest horror comedy ever made, but in the end, its freaky little flick.
Film Racket
3.0
Resoundingly British and sheerly enjoyable story of filmmakers joining the fight against Hitler
The Arts Desk
1.5
Unfortunately fine performances cant rescue a film that tackles a serious subject but fails to say anything of real interest or substance.
Ign
3.5
The scenes between the two of them are surprisingly soft and touching for such a manic movie.
The Dissolve
3.0
But theres a sadness to it a melancholy in the way its characters try to eke on in discouraging surroundings that offer little life and fun.
Metro New York
3.0
Even Persepolis drew more on marionette theater and shadow puppetry than cinema.
Film Comment
4.8
Appealing to look at, grotesque to bite into, and absolutely genius.
Crave Online
1.0
Its the kind of tedious misfire that provokes active regret regarding the time wasted watching it.
The Skinny
4.2
It all wraps up in a finale thats simultaneously wince inducing and strangely uplifting.
Movie Mezzanine
4.4
This is a film that understands and grapples with mental illness on a very real and very personal level.
Movie Mezzanine
4.0
That he retains our sympathy amid the gore is largely down to Reynolds goofy charm, abetted by the films colourfully cartoony look, an in your face mi ..
What So
2.5
Nor does it want toits fantastical, its surreal, its heavily stylized.
The Mary Sue
3.1
But once its decided that anything might be unreal, there are so many more places the narrative might have gone.
National Post
2.5
So the movie has to be taken at face value: As a wacky and unsettling jaunt into sheer madness.
Toronto Sun
3.5
On paper, it all might sound rather sad and grubby, but it is actually a rather elegant little macabre tragedy.
Theepoch Times
3.0
Movie Review: The Voices Ryan Reynolds, Gemma Arterton, Anna Kendrick, Jacki Weaver, Ella Smith Marjane Satrapi Ryan Reynolds has starred in some pret ..
Blog Bullz Eye
3.8
Satrapi, an accomplished graphic novelist, presents an askew world that blends bright kitsch and a pop sensibility with Jerrys dark inner life.
Am Ny
3.5
The Voices is a trippy horror film that shifts tones often and is as twisted as its lead character.
Showbiz Junkies
3.0
And while it certainly wont be to every taste, it does deserve credit for daring to be different, even if it is handicapped by some of its wilder exce ..
Indie London
4.5
A fiercely entertaining horror rom com that defies traditional cinematic definitions, The Voices is a triumph in every possible way and proves that Re ..
Daily Dead
2.5
This burnt black comedy has a bleak, queasy core, but the seriousness of its character study is undermined by a jokey tone that makes light of a lonel ..
The Fright File
3.5
The Voices is a dark comedy, emphasis more on dark than comedy, and it goes there.It maintains a creepy tone throughout but its sensitive to Jerry too ..
Nerd Report
3.0
The film is simultaneously horribly gory, terrifically funny and terribly sad; a combination which could be confusing in any other hands than Satrapis ..
Electric Sheep Magazine
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