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41 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 90Boxoffice MagazinePete HammondBoxoffice MagazinePete HammondIt's an emotional powerhouse of a film, an unforgettable and rewarding motion picture experience.
- 88ReelViewsJames BerardinelliReelViewsJames BerardinelliDirector Stephen Daldry has fashioned an emotionally powerful cinematic testimony about that horrific late summer day.
- 80The Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyThe Hollywood ReporterTodd McCarthyBest of all, von Sydow is absolutely wonderful, with the great veteran actor clearly relishing this very unusual role as he darts, skulks and, in a stealthy way, mugs across town. Without saying a thing, he dominates the middle part of the movie.
- 67Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumEntertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumA polarizing load of quirkiness in Extremely Loud gunks up (at least for this hometown mourner; your results may vary) what is at heart a piercing story.
- 60With its re-enactments of that fateful day, Extremely Loud plays a bit too much like one of those perfectly lit, heart-tugging segments TV networks air during the Olympics. It hardly matters that Horn manages to give such a naturalistic, unmannered performance as the young Oskar when everything around him has been so deliberately orchestrated to provoke a specific reaction.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfWe might have all felt like lost children for a while, but ten years later, the innocence is shameless.
- 50Village VoiceNick PinkertonVillage VoiceNick PinkertonSuch an abundance of "epiphanies," one after another, amount to a tactical assault on viewer sentiments. The deluge of tears is Daldry's idea of pathos, but to these eyes, it's Oscar-trolling 9/11 kitsch.
- 40New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierNew York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThe result is that, as with Hanks' performance, what's missing - subtlety, truth, an earned sense of rebirth – is stronger than what's here. Despite all the connections in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, it never connects to us the way we need it to.
- 0The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasIt will always be "too soon" for Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close, which processes the immense grief of a city and a family through a conceit so nauseatingly precious that it's somehow both too literary and too sentimental, cloying yet aestheticized within an inch of its life.