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Peter Debruge, Variety: Like a cross between Forrest Gump and a Jonathan Winters character, this Swedish centenarian bumbles his way through international events. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, AV Club: The 100-Year-Old Man surely won't conquer the U.S. box office, but it's a nice change of pace to see a foreign film that isn't deadly serious. We could use more subtitled belly laughs. Read more
Loren King, Boston Globe: It's never explained what Allan's mental state is, other than lovable geriatric rascal-itis, an irritating trope that hardly constitutes a certifiable condition. Read more
Tom Long, Detroit News: "The 100-Year-Old-Man" is wonderfully inventive, silly fun. Read more
Chris Nashawaty, Entertainment Weekly: I have no reason to doubt that all of this goes down as sweetly as a box of chocolates in Stockholm, but here, its charm is lost in translation. Read more
David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter: Robert Gustafsson has been called "the funniest man in Sweden." Meh. Must be an acquired taste. Read more
Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: It's a hoot and a half. Read more
Neil Genzlinger, New York Times: The film genre that might be called Old People Behaving Hilariously gets an appealing new entry with "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared," a sometimes daffy, often droll Swedish movie. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: This peripatetic farce practically propels itself. Read more
David Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle: Perhaps most of the humor just doesn't translate (the film was a smash hit in Sweden). Whatever the case, the script needed to mine more comedy from the characters, not the clownish plot machinations. Read more
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune: The title sounds like a drab "Marigold Hotel" snoozer, but this comedy is a start-to-finish rocket-speed riot. Read more
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: It seems destined for a Hollywood remake, which is likely to be more polished but not nearly as weirdly charming. Read more
Linda Barnard, Toronto Star: Aiming for charm but too often settling for slapstick ... Read more
Michael Nordine, Village Voice: The 100-Year-Old Man's equal-opportunity irreverence doesn't often translate to cleverness. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: Herngren's hyper-plotty story goes from testing credulity to utterly insulting it, as incident piles on to incident in an ever-escalating cascade of you-won't-believe-what-happens-nexts. Read more
John Anderson, Wall Street Journal: Very satisfying. Read more