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Susan Stark, Detroit News: The new film confirms that Lemmons and Jackson are a movie team made in heaven. Read more
Dallas Morning News: Loaded down with laughable caricatures and a plot as confused as its protagonist. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Burdened by sloppy plot turns and unbelievable characters. Read more
Elvis Mitchell, New York Times: Works as everything but a mystery, yet it is intriguing in a number of ways. Read more
Steve Murray, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: A work whose visual assurance is undercut by a script that's sometimes as ludicrous as it is ambitious. Read more
Eric Harrison, Houston Chronicle: Watching the film, it's easy to imagine how a novel might make the unlikely plot machinations less ludicrous. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: There is pleasure in giving oneself up to the gusty swirls of the film's imagery, and especially to the handsome grandeur of its star. Read more
Ray Conlogue, Globe and Mail: This is a commercial film with limited ambitions. Read more
James Berardinelli, ReelViews: This 'thriller' is more likely to lull viewers to sleep than to keep them on the edges of their seats. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: It's remarkable the way Jackson begins with the kind of character we'd avert our eyes from, and makes him fascinating and even likable. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Hovers somewhere in that never-never land of movies that try to do too much and don't quite live up to any of their ambitions. Read more
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle: The plot lines that follow are so convoluted and ludicrous that one just gives up piecing it all together. Read more
Richard Corliss, TIME Magazine: The Caveman has lapses of logic, but fewer than you will find in George Dawes Green's improbable script. Read more
Amy Taubin, Village Voice: It seems like the kind of art film that might have been dreamed up by a feverish high schooler. Read more
Rita Kempley, Washington Post: Intriguing, visually startling. Read more
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post: Jackson's convincing portrayal of an untethered psyche scrambling for purchase on the slippery slope of sanity and Lemmons's arresting cinematic vision, in which we see the world through the eyes of a man continually descending into ...madness, is enough. Read more