Cold Souls has its flaws, and it threatens to sag into a Paul-like morbidity, but Giamatti’s anxious mien and unspectacular shamblings have never been better deployed.
75
Rolling StonePeter Travers
Rolling StonePeter Travers
You'll laugh till it hurts at Cold Souls.
75
USA TodayClaudia Puig
USA TodayClaudia Puig
The low-key satire would have benefited from more of a back story to Giamatti's character and a clearer sense of his relationship with his wife. But what we do get is compelling in the way of an indelible, dreamy short story.
70
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter
Giamatti is aptly cast, playing his own persona with awkward anxiety and suitably skewed humor.
70
VarietyJustin Chang
VarietyJustin Chang
An amusing slice of existential whimsy with an Eastern European bent, Cold Souls posits a world in which humans can have their souls extracted and implanted in each others’ bodies.
70
Village Voice
Village Voice
It may be only in the film's last ambiguous, evocative image that Barthes and Parekh finally transcend the material and arrive at something beautiful and ineffable.