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Metascore
13 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80VarietyVarietyTech elements, including music, lensing, costumes and production design are blazingly impressive and strikingly evocative on all levels.
- 80TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissA film worthy of being displayed on a screen eight stories high.
- 75San Francisco ChroniclePeter StackSan Francisco ChroniclePeter StackThe big screen -- with that 3-D depth charge -- captures the strange magic of the "big top" Cirque in visual gulps.
- 75Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle Post-IntelligencerThe film still shines.
- 75Philadelphia InquirerDesmond RyanPhiladelphia InquirerDesmond RyanThe troupe deserves every bit of its worldwide renown, and it makes this Imax trip one well worth taking.
- 70L.A. WeeklyL.A. WeeklyWhy 3-D?
- 60TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghA hokey, more-than-a-little-annoying mystical journey of self-discovery.
- 50Miami HeraldMiami HeraldToo bad Journey of Man, as a whole, is never as consistently compelling as that one visually arresting scene (with Yves Décoste and Marie-Laure Mesnage)
- 40Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasUnnecessary and silly.
- 25New York PostHannah BrownNew York PostHannah BrownThe ugly, witless pair of clowns who flit through the movie are emblematic of everything that is wrong with this dull, monumentally pretentious mess.