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Glenn Lovell, San Jose Mercury News: A high-concept idea in search of plot, a few new wrinkles and a more playful or perverse approach. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: A ragbag of promising ideas and failed narrative, of good acting and plain old bad filmmaking. Read more
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press: It not only has a star created by a computer, it has a script that could have been created in one as well. Read more
Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Simone doesn't have anything to say about the vapidity of celebrity culture, other than the obvious. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: Though at times the satire is over the top, Simone raises some interesting and troubling questions about the future of cinema. Read more
Susan Stark, Detroit News: Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: Instead of piercing flesh and tinsel, the satiric shots almost slither off the screen. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: It's tepid and vapid. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: While Simone has its strengths, perhaps we should have waited for version 2.0. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A smart and funny, albeit sometimes superficial, cautionary tale of a technology in search of an artist. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Unpleasantly glib and relentlessly shallow. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: The film isn't much, but Pacino's nimble actor's mind, the way it animates his haggard face and puts his voice and body at the character's service, is something no computer can touch. Read more
Paul Clinton (CNN.com), CNN.com: Simone is not a bad film. It just doesn't have anything really interesting to say. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: Niccol smartly contrasts the bland, blond beauty of computer-colored Simone ... with the brunet vividness of Keener. Read more
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: If this is satire, it's the smug and self-congratulatory kind that lets the audience completely off the hook. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: An artificial movie about an artificial actress. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, L.A. Weekly: Niccol gives audiences a very amusing puzzle about authenticity, fraud, and the uses and abuses of technology. Read more
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Rex Reed, New York Observer: A clever, innovative satire of movies and consumer technology that marches to its own drumbeat and comes up with continual surprises. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This is the case of a pregnant premise being wasted by a script that takes few chances and manages to insult the intelligence of everyone in the audience. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's fitfully funny but never really takes off. Read more
Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: Bounces around haphazardly, at some moments steeping in its juvenile irony and bitterness, at others trying to become exactly the kind of Hollywood light entertainment it decries, and all without any relationship to the real world. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Uses a premise involving fantasy computer technology as a jumping- off point to say some pertinent things about longing and idolatry in the modern age. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Read more
Scott Tobias, AV Club: Niccol has yet to make a film that follows through on his massive ambition, but with conceits this brilliant, he can get away with leaving them only partially realized. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Pushes its thesis way past the breaking point of even the most gullible or charitable of viewers. Read more
Mike D'Angelo, Time Out: In the real world, an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a resume loaded with credits like "Girl in Bar #3." Read more
Claudia Puig, USA Today: A witty and sharply written Hollywood satire that is entertaining, if a bit directionless. Read more
Scott Foundas, Variety: Ultimately feels like just one more in the long line of films this year about the business of making movies. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: An industry satire that's less funny than half-empty and hyper-designed. Read more