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Metascore
40 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75Rolling StonePeter TraversRolling StonePeter TraversThe Dreamers may go slack when you most want it to soar, but it also seduces with eroticism and resonates with ideas.
- 70The A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe A.V. ClubKeith PhippsThe Dreamers is a universal story, one that captures the thrill of discovering culture, sex, and politics, and the painful twinge of learning that those worlds aren't enough.
- 60New York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerNew York Magazine (Vulture)Peter RainerHe doesn’t entirely succeed, but the attempt has poignancy: As uneven as much of his recent work has been, Bertolucci's still in love with the movies, and his ardor--if not always the ends he puts it to--is exhilarating.
- 50Film ThreatKevin CarrFilm ThreatKevin CarrIt wasn't as good as the films it cites, but at least it didn't bore me.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterThe film's real failure is that neither the story nor the characters capture the zeitgeist that Bertolucci theoretically set out to celebrate.
- 50VarietyDavid RooneyVarietyDavid RooneyThe whole spirit of rebellion, passion and protest that should be a driving force for the characters plays more like a cultivated affectation.
- 50Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanEntertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanIn The Dreamers, Bertolucci wants to take us back to a more revolutionary time, but mostly he ends up recalling the faded revolution of his own glory days.
- 40The New YorkerDavid DenbyThe New YorkerDavid DenbyBertolucci is trying hard to shock us with this stuff, but, for all the perversities and the abundant nudity, the movie has an air of inconsequence about it. [9 February 2004, p. 74]
- 40TimeRichard SchickelTimeRichard SchickelDispassionate, curiously lifeless, lacking the energy of either youthful commitment or a deeply engaged re-examination of the past.
- 40Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanThe Dreamers is bad, but unlike the similarly camped-up "Little Buddha" or "Stealing Beauty," it's not exactly boring.