Perfect Sense 2011

Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: In staying together as their world evaporates into darkness and silence, they are displaying what anyone in love would recognize as quiet heroism - and perfect sense. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: A solemn sci-fi parable set in present-day Glasgow, whose deepening sense of foreboding is sustained by the enigmatic, pseudo-biblical reflections of an unseen narrator. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Filmed with the somber pretentiousness of a Babel, the movie never quite converts its premise into something grander (never mind believable). Read more

David Edelstein, New York Magazine/Vulture: You've got to make room in your heart for a film in which the world ends with neither a bang nor a whimper but a cuddle. Read more

Alison Willmore, AV Club: Each deprivation is preceded by a flurry of emotion that leads to the film's most vivid sequences. Read more

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: An intriguing apocalyptic romance with a multi-purpose title. Read more

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Andrew Lapin, NPR: It's difficult to impart feelings of profound sadness with an image of Ewan McGregor shoving a stick of butter in his mouth. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Sadly, even aficionados of the Cinema of Extinction may make "Perfect Sense" an Omega choice. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: People around the world progressively lose their senses of smell, taste, hearing and, finally, sight. Too bad the filmmakers never seem to have had a sense of humor in the first place. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: If you crave action, dialogue, explanations, character revelations and clear plot resolutions, Perfect Sense never lives up to its title. Read more

Tirdad Derakhshani, Philadelphia Inquirer: The film loses its charm with annoying sequences that have a narrator explain to us "The Meaning of it All" and then tell us "What Really Matters" in life: Love. Love. Love. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: The problem with Perfect Sense is its inability to be effective as either a character-based love story or something larger and more bold. Read more

Trevor Johnston, Time Out: Thrillingly ambitious, ecstatically romantic, utterly unexpected. Read more

Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: Satisfyingly ambiguous and starkly tactile in its inquiry into where sensation ends and identity begins, David Mackenzie's rampaging-virus movie doesn't dodge genre potholes so much as it stays off that road entirely. Read more