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5 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80CineVueJohn BleasdaleCineVueJohn BleasdaleKröger manages well with moments of pure cinema in between, and a particularly out-there moment of noise and mayhem which threatens to crush the film and the audience in an audiovisual avalanche. There’s an immersive strangeness that only David Lynch has snuck into mainstream cinema.
- 80VarietyJessica KiangVarietyJessica KiangAn overlong but enjoyable metaphysical thriller that delivers pastiche so meticulous it becomes its own source of supremely cinematic pleasure.
- 60The Film VerdictBoyd van HoeijThe Film VerdictBoyd van HoeijThe Theory of Everything works best as a kind of surrealist carrousel of film influences and physics references and as such, it’s mostly enjoyable.
- 60Film ThreatAlex SavelievFilm ThreatAlex SavelievThe Universal Theory works in fits and starts but is bound to leave the audience not entirely convinced by its logic.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe Hollywood ReporterJordan MintzerThe result is more admirable than captivating, losing its way in old school hijinks (wacky professors, evil spies, a femme fatale) that grow outlandishly phantasmagorical as the plot thickens.