Welcome to Marwen Reviews



  • Welcome to Marwen
    • Genre : Drama, Biography
    • Release Date :
    • MPAA Rating : PG-13
    • Duration : 116 minute(s)
    • Production Budget : 39
    • Studio : Universal Pictures
    • Official Site : http://www.welcometomarwen.com/
    • Reviews Rate
      Not quite bad, but it's not recommended either.

    • Readers Rate
      N/A

Movie Reviews

  • though lacking in subtlety, Robert Zemeckis' "Welcome to Marwen" delivers a sentimental fantasy world worth wading in; Zemeckis' film parallels the sensational imagination of Hogancamp with the reality of his recovery
    3 of 5 by Garrett Mitchell [Arizona Republic ]
  • strange and affecting; The 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
    by Keith Uhlich [The Hollywood Reporter ]
  • despite a sympathetic lead performance from Steve Carell, the fictionalized version bogs down in extensive animated doll sequences, so similar they grow increasingly tiresome
    2 of 5 by Sara Stewart [New York Post ]
  • "Welcome to Marwen" simply don't feel satisfying or emotionally authentic to me; The real-life scenes don't feel like Hogancamp's real life; they feel like a Hollywood falsification of it, despite Carell's and Mann's valiant efforts
    1.5 of 4 by Michael Phillips [Chicago Tribune ]
  • "Welcome to Marwen" reduced the complicated and ineffably human saga of Mark Hogancamp into a glossy inspirational fable about the power of friendship, it's even more disconcerting to find that the film itself does much the same thing
    Review rate : C by David Ehrlich [Indiewire ]
  • "Welcome to Marwen" does not work as a drama of addiction, and frankly it doesn't work as a celebration of Hogancamp's creations, which work best as stunning still-photo images
    1 of 4 by G. Allen Johnson [San Fransisco Chronicle ]

Reader's Reviews

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