Critic Reviews

• Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution

  Another example of when bad movies happen to good actors.

• Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly

  A movie hobbled by unwieldy visual ideas.

• Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

  Improbabilities and all, Simpatico still boasts wonderful scenes and a cast that is truly superb.

• Michael Dequina, TheMovieReport.com

  With the cast and the pulpy neo-noir storyline, one would never suspect that the film is the crushing bore that it is.

• Amber Wilkinson, Eye for Film

  This is an engaging movie, which shows its theatrical origins, both positively and negatively.

• Jeffrey Westhoff, Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

  Nolte and Bridges have too much talent to play their uninspired characters.

• Brent Simon, Entertainment Today

  The film might as well be called Stagnant, because precious little of emotional consequence for the audience happens.

• Chuck Rudolph, Matinee Magazine

  Nolte and Bridges are naturals together.

• Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWire

  Powerhouse performances can't save sloppy Simpatico from the glue factory.

• Matt Reichl, Reel.com

  Despite a dream cast and an interesting neo-noir setup, his film races straight into tedium.

• , IFilm

  Though British director Matthew Warchus gets quality work from his A-list cast members, their contributions cannot redeem the hackneyed and obvious material.

• Jean Oppenheimer, New Times

  It proves only intermittently engaging as its twisted plot loses energy and becomes confusing in the latter half.

• Tom Sander, South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  This deadly slow, boring, overwrought, silly and stilted melodrama is so awful you ask, 'Why did anyone think this was worth making?'

• Paula Nechak, Seattle Post-Intelligencer

  Ultimately the film, like the story, is enigmatic and messy and circles in on itself until there is nowhere to go.

• Jay Stone, Ottawa Citizen

  Simpatico is interesting only as a collage of scenes among good actors: there's no chemistry in its romantic triangle.

• Stephen Whitty, MSNBC

  Is it that the director hates these women, or that Shepard simply can't write a good one?

• David N. Butterworth, rec.arts.movies.reviews

  If the film's title sounds like the next Mexican cerveza, it's not inappropriate. Simpatico comes wrapped in a fancy label -- Nolte, Bridges, Stone -- but inside the product is flat and weak.

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