“If you listen to Beastie Boys, Jonze’s technique — a familiar blend of rough and smooth, high tech and low tech — comes correct. If you don’t listen to Beastie Boys, the movie serves as a biographical and musical introduction.”
“Looking at Cusack’s entire body of work helps one realise that, with age and experience, he has built an increasingly complex and multifaceted persona, playing off his image in order to counter expectations and, probably, to remain excited by his job.”
“It’s done critically, sympathetically and with a demand from the viewer to take responsibility for their role in the story, too.”
A Column on Film Criticism by Justine A. Smith
“Sing along with a corpse and come out the other side appreciating the bus ride home.”