- 10
...one of the boldest, most audacious American movies of the last 25 years...
—Nathan Rabin Onion AV Club
- 9
Undisciplined, teeming with big thoughts and overplotted unto exhaustion, Huckabees is a bitch to review, but tremendous fun to watch.
—Ella Taylor LA Weekly
- 9
...by far the most original comedy of the year.
—Glenn Kenny Premiere
- 8
It's less "ha-ha" funny and more "senile grandma" funny, but this soul-searching beats the crap out of reading Nietzsche, and you'll exit feeling enlightened. (Or at least aroused.)
—Paul Ulane Maxim
- 8
My hunch is that whether you love it or reject it as obtuse, incoherent or self-involved will be a generational thing.
—Carina Chocano Los Angeles Times
- 8
...captures liberal-left despair with astonishingly good humor: it's Fahrenheit 9/11 for the screwball set.
—Manohla Dargis New York Times
- 7
Russell, who co-wrote the script with Jeff Baena, tosses so many big ideas in the air that it's not surprising a few crash and burn. Live with it. Russell is a true original. It's not in his DNA to play it safe. He's a rebel Pied Piper, and Huckabees is one more reason to follow him anywhere.
—Peter Travers Rolling Stone
- 7
...a clever new film from audacious indie director David O. Russell ("Three Kings"), is kind of like free jazz -- some may recoil from its atonal clamor, while others will groove on its live-wire unpredictability.
—Megan Lehmann New York Post
- 7
It's filled with characters who, desperate to feel deep, want answers to life's big questions. And watching it, you, also desperate to feel deep, will want answers to big questions like, "What's this all about?"
—Allison Benedikt Chicago Tribune
- 7
...an intelligent and giddy comedy.
—Leah Rozen People
- 6
...a quirky curiosity that's cheeky, shrewdly clever and more than a little precious.
—Maitland McDonagh TV Guide
- 6
While getting wacky performances out of everyone, the film often gets tripped up in its own mumbo jumbo, which might go over your head unless you heart Sartre. The diminishing comic returns and a slightly unsatisfying wrap-up don't help much either. Enter this relationship duly warned.
— E!
- 5
...is content to wallow in obscurantist quirk and flash.
—Keith Uhlich filmcritic.com
- 5
Structured as a series of interlocking breakdowns, Huckabees is a sort of static whirligig--too heavy to soar but too light to ever fall flat.
—J. Hoberman Village Voice
- 5
The movie is like an infernal machine that consumes all of the energy it generates, saving the last watt of current to turn itself off. It functions perfectly within its constraints, but it leaves the viewer out of the loop.
—Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times
- 5
Russell has come up with a grab bag of ideas that don't stick with you because they don't stick together.
—Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly
- 5
...has big stars but lacks emotional heft.
—David Sterritt Christian Science Monitor
- 4
...a tedious and self-indulgent mess of a film...
—Tim Knight Reel