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28 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 80SalonStephanie ZacharekSalonStephanie ZacharekSee it in one glorious shot, grab as much from it as you can and run like hell. I say that not because I hated Masked & Anonymous, but because I loved it.
- 75Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle Post-IntelligencerA strange and convoluted film that is as rewarding as a Dylan song, and just as perplexing.
- 50Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversIt's only when the film attempts to express its ideas in spoken English that logic dissolves into a muddle that would test the most rabid Dylanologist.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumRequires tremendous restraint not to conclude that this entertainingly apocalyptic mess is about nothing, since it may well be about everything. But I doubt it.
- 50San Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannSan Francisco ChronicleEdward GuthmannA messy, ambitious comedy.
- 40Dallas ObserverRobert WilonskyDallas ObserverRobert WilonskyThe film strains for some kind of meaning, but asks you to do the work it can't and won't perform on its own.
- 40Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenAustin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenBob Dylan might have been wrong when he sang that "there’s no success like failure, and failure’s no success at all." His new movie, although a complete narrative mess, is a thoroughly Dylanesque escapade.
- 40TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghTV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghThough Dylan shuffles through the dramatic sequences like a dessicated mummy, the music sequences are strikingly vibrant -- he's never looked worse or sounded better.
- 30The New York TimesDana StevensThe New York TimesDana StevensAn unholy, incoherent mess.
- 20The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsDylan's performance doesn't offer any clues. He's an icon and he delivers an icon's performance, literally: He could easily have been replaced by piece of wood with his face painted on it. That distance also means he remains more or less untouched by the embarrassment going on around him, even though it's largely his own creation.