3 2010

Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: A playfully pieced-together, beautifully shot, and secretly ridiculous drama about a triangular relationship among blase Berliners. Read more

Stephen Holden, New York Times: The lyrical conclusion, set to the surging, diaphanous music of Debussy, gives "3" a surprisingly sweet aftertaste. Read more

David Fear, Time Out: You can't shake the feeling that 3 exists primarily to justify a shot of three figures impeccably posed together on a mattress. Read more

John Hartl, Seattle Times: Tykwer's script is structured so that the audience knows more about the characters' connections than they do. As each faces a midlife crisis/turning point, fate sometimes appears to be calling the shots. Read more

Tasha Robinson, AV Club: [Showcases] a restless, ambitious talent who invariably puts an idiosyncratic stamp on his material, no matter how ordinary it is at the core. Read more

Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: It's a funny, fearless, suspenseful sex comedy that, in drawing on science and philosophy and art and death, risks accusations of pretentiousness. Read more

Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times: A sensuous intellectual romp whose strong casting makes it involving, even when sentimentality creeps into the story or ideas present themselves in boldface. Read more

Joe Neumaier, New York Daily News: Rois has moments of desperate urgency and depth, but Twyker's love of parallels is finally done in by artsy shots of the threesome au naturel against stark white backdrops. Read more

V.A. Musetto, New York Post: Tykwer exhibits a fondness for split screens and other eye candy but no interest in formalities like character and plot development. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: The film is successful in an absorbing sort of way, but underwhelming. Read more

Leba Hertz, San Francisco Chronicle: Despite its fascinating and humorous moments, one can't help but be frustrated when at times it switches away to spiritual pretentiousness. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: ...Tom Tykwer's provocative and ferociously intelligent 3, a movie no Hollywood studio would ever green-light but which is nonetheless one of this year's best films so far. Read more

Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Willing suspension of disbelief -- or suppression of giggles -- is required. Read more

Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Tykwer can't seem to turn Hanna, Simon and Adam into real people. They feel like pawns in the service of a more cerebral diversion than the game of life. Read more