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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: Destined to hang on for a couple of weekends at the multiplex and live on forever as a cult favorite. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: A scathing, often right-on look at the follies of contemporary culture. Read more
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times: It's all believable enough, but it never sings. Read more
Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle: The film has a lot of rough edges. But it works as an intriguingly offbeat character study while offering Nicolas Cage a chance to show why he used to be considered one of the top actors of his generation. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's a strange film. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: The Weather Man has the chance to be this year's Sideways. If, that is, it's marketed right. Read more
Wesley Morris, Boston Globe: We get a vague movie that a few successful but chronically dissatisfied men will be able to call their own. The rest of us will see the film for what it is: a long, cold mumble from the heart. Read more
Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times: It's a sincere, well-put-together movie about the modern human condition. Hopefully, this will be enough to attract curiosity. After all, it's nice to get into someone else's head for a while, even if the head is being used for target practice. Read more
Amy Biancolli, Houston Chronicle: I see no reason, apart from chronic yuppie passive-aggression, why Dave shouldn't get over himself and wipe that giant 'L' off his forehead. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Cage has no peer when it comes to bringing out the emotional nuances in morose characters and making them funny -- and touching. Read more
Michael Booth, Denver Post: Succeeds where so few Hollywood movies even venture - it builds a believable life, adds just enough nervous laughter to relieve the realistic tension, and constantly escapes the dumbed-down expectations beaten into us by lesser films. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: The Weather Man is what indie misery looks like when re-created by one of Hollywood's big studios. Read more
Philip Wuntch, Dallas Morning News: The film has the insistent persona of an ambitious college student who desperately expects an A but must settle for a lesser letter. Nevertheless, a fine cast guarantees good moments. Read more
Scott Foundas, L.A. Weekly: In a radical departure from the Hollywood norm, the movie doesn't set out to redeem him. If anything, it's a movie about Spritz coming to embrace his own mediocrity. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: Unlike the arrows Dave uses for his archery hobby, the movie never quite hits whatever target it's aiming for. Read more
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: The movie doesn't have the courage of its own bleak convictions. Read more
David Edelstein, NPR's Fresh Air: The Weather Man is a fine movie, beautifully acted, but it isn't easy to love -- or to watch. Read more
Jami Bernard, New York Daily News: What The Weather Man needed was a change in its weather -- a certain kind of humor, to be precise, something like the deadpan but human satire of Alexander Payne's About Schmidt. Read more
Manohla Dargis, New York Times: This fainthearted bid at social satire stars Nicolas Cage as a middle-aged man gazing into the yawning void of his life. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: An engaging meditation on a man cursed with that midlife self-awareness. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: This film has moments of uncommon observation and touching insight. Read more
Stephanie Zacharek, Salon.com: Dave's self-involvement is so extreme that he can't see that the bluntly human weaknesses of the people around him aren't his fault. We both pity him and want to shake him; eventually, though, we just become bored by him. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: David is pathetic, something that fans of Cage's macho adventures might have trouble accepting. But he's intriguingly pathetic, a state that raises some interesting issues. Read more
Stephen Cole, Globe and Mail: Another Nicolas Cage film where the star mopes through the proceedings as if he's suffering from a bad head cold. Read more
Peter Howell, Toronto Star: Like the chilly winds that blow throughout it, The Weather Man is cold, grim, erratic and eventually just relentless. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: This is one glum outing, with occasional pings of wry wit and hearty chuckles. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: One of the biggest downers to emerge from a major studio in recent memory. Read more
Michael Atkinson, Village Voice: The most supremely odd American film of the year. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: What makes this so emotionally compelling is the way Dave scrambles from this deep vale of cluelessness to something approaching moral maturity. Read more