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Roger Ebert, At the Movies: Jakob the Liar wants the freedom of the Benigni film but doesn't want to pay the dues. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Seems forced, calculating, self-conscious. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: It's jolting that such a potentially life-affirming movie could be so lifeless. Read more
Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune: I never lost awareness that I was watching actors speaking lines, not real people. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A plodding, well-intended comedy-drama drowned in a muddy palette of grays and browns, thick with the odd sound of American actors using fake Polish accents. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Jakob the Liar is so forced that only the interest of a star of Williams' magnitude could have gotten it made. Read more
Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: The film leans from the comedic to the near-mawkish. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Peter Kassovitz establishes an effectively grim, cramped yet barren setting, making respectful use of locations in Poland and Budapest. Read more
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Janet Maslin, New York Times: The film anticipates all laughter and emotion in ways that make it its own worst enemy. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Williams is seriously miscast, and his presence in the movie damages its credibility and effectiveness. Read more
Bob Graham, San Francisco Chronicle: Williams' performance is a masterpiece of mixed emotions. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: A markedly better picture than Roberto Benigni's far more sentimental Oscar collector. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: If telling lies can save a people, he reasons, let the stories - and those fictional tanks - roll. Read more