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38 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70The Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe Hollywood ReporterKeith UhlichThe story's knotty aspects reverberate under its sentimental-cum-inspirational surface. In the guise of a glossy entertainment, Welcome to Marwen gets at some unnervingly irresolvable truths about humanity.
- 60Arizona RepublicGarrett MitchellArizona RepublicGarrett MitchellThough lacking in subtlety, Robert Zemeckis' Welcome to Marwen delivers a sentimental fantasy world worth wading in.
- 50IndieWireDavid EhrlichIndieWireDavid Ehrlich“The most original movie of the year?” Not quite. But sometimes, if a film is this hard to sell, perhaps that’s a sign that it shouldn’t have been made in the first place.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyEntertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyIf Marwencol made your heart go out to Mark, Welcome to Marwen does something quite different. It makes you want to back away from him slowly.
- 50VarietyOwen GleibermanVarietyOwen GleibermanThe film is far from incompetent, and it brims with ambition, but too much of the time what’s happening just sits there. It’s a lavishly odd concoction, like a feel-good movie for OCD miniature-world Barbie-doll fetishists.
- 40The GuardianPeter BradshawThe GuardianPeter BradshawThe remarkable career of artist and photographer Mark Hogancamp has been turned into an elaborate and misjudged movie of baffling pass-agg ickiness and pointlessness.
- 40Screen DailyStephen WhittyScreen DailyStephen WhittyFor a movie that’s supposed to be about a modern-day Geppetto bringing his dolls to life, the wooden Welcome to Marwen never makes it out of the toy box.
- 38Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsWelcome to Marwen is a misjudgment only a first-rate filmmaker could make.
- 25IGNMatthew DoughertyIGNMatthew DoughertyDirector Robert Zemeckis hits a new artistic low with Welcome to Marwen, a film that mistakes schmaltz for substance and employs downright boring novelty animation in a hackneyed attempt to stir the emotions.