Mental 2012

Stephen Holden, New York Times: "Mental" wildly overplays the kookiness and quirk. Read more

Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: The heart of Hogan's film is in the right place, and Collette is masterful as an agent of anarchy. Read more

Richard Kuipers, Variety: Much of the humor is driven by a savage near-hatred of everything suburban, which frequently undermines its own effectiveness, and poses a barrier to auds engaging emotionally with the central character. Read more

Randy Cordova, Arizona Republic: A lot of times, you simply want the jabbering characters to shut up. Read more

Megan Lehmann, Hollywood Reporter: A cuckoo comedy that puts the fun in dysfunctional. Read more

Gary Goldstein, Los Angeles Times: Writer-director P.J. Hogan may have based "Mental" on an actual incident from his childhood, but the crazy quilt of a movie that resulted feels anything but real. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: The scenery Down Under looks great and you certainly can't write off a film where Liev Schreiber plays a shark hunter. Read more

Cath Clarke, Time Out: Wrong is wrong. And 'Mental' gets it wrong in too many ways. Read more

Sam Adams, Time Out: Artistic inspiration can be close to madness, but Mental is just plain nuts. Read more

Marsha McCreadie, Village Voice: Mental skewers the easy-on and -off labels of psychiatry, but some sequences, particularly one of "bad dreams," are sophomoric. Read more